Bruce Feiler Quotes

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• The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

  Bruce Feiler

  Team, Kids, Technology

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• After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

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  Strong, Important, May

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• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

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  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.

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  Selfish, Loneliness, Love You

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

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  Turtles, World, Walks

  "On Father's Day - Make Time for a Long, Slow Walk" by Bruce Feiler, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

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  Children, Goal, Schedules

  "Agile programming - for your family". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2013.

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• The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

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  Book, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges, you write a new chapter in your story together. Love is the constant act of revising and retelling your own story in real time. You don't do it by yourself. You do it with someone else. The only way you do that is to talk to each other and create a shared narrative.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop giving you hugs and kisses. And when I have no more love left, I just drink milk, because that’s where love comes from.’

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  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

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• There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

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  Laundry, Profundity

  Bruce Feiler (2010). “The Council Of Dads: Family, fatherhood, and life lessons to leave my daughters”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

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  Winning, Small Steps, Small Wins

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You have to write a new chapter in your story. A relationship can be a sacred thing, but it's going to be difficult. There are going to be challenges. You are going to have pain. But working it through and being resilient is as sacred and meaningful as having a "Hollywood" romance.

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  Meaningful, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

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  Reflection, Climbing Up, Light

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• One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.

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  Real, Kids, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

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  Names, Desire, Stories

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• Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.

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  Eye, Giving, Community

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

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  Adventure, White, Russia

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• We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

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  Meaningful, Religious, Book

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• Moses is our true founding father.

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  Father, Moses, Founding

  "This Month in Moses: How the Bible’s Greatest Hero Became America’s Greatest Icon" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2010.

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• We're in a hyper-connected world, and there's a crisis of connection. The first thing that God says about woman and man in the Bible is that it's not right for humans to be alone. Social media interaction cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction. If anything, it prevents us from doing that. We're staring into our screens for so long that we're forgetting to look at the people directly in front of us.

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  Men, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

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  Skeletons, Lines, Want

  "How Easter and Passover Can Make Your Family Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

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  Children, Skills, Giving

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• Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

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  Mean, Talking, Important

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• The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

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  Thinking, Stories, Way

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• Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

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  America, Domain

  "God and Dad -- A Father's Four Lessons of Faith" By Bruce Feiler, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2010.

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