KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Alexandra Robbins Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Alexandra Robbins

Showing 11-16 of 16 Quotes by Alexandra Robbins

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Classmates Colleges Feel Good Had High High School Like Look Order Pile Private School Tutors Use

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Across Been Came Country Doing Kids Lectures Lot Out Since Talking

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Because Busy Conform Kids Know More Necessarily Popular Real Trying Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: About Access Around Audience Become Facebook Feel Hate High High School Image Imaginary Keep Makes Myspace Now Online Psychologists Real School Seem Talk Teens Them Think Time Up Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Adult Children Develop Dominate Drones Increasingly Learned Rely System Unacceptable

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Best Government Healthcare Hospitals Hotels How Interpret Least Mandate Many Nurses Personal Ready Seem

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Alexandra Robbins on Amazon

Related Authors

Dave Barry
Ambrose Bierce
Erma Bombeck
Ann Coulter
Ann Landers
Fran Lebowitz
Mignon Mclaughlin
Hunter S. Thompson

Popular Authors

Kofi Annan James A. Baldwin Jesus Christ Thomas Jefferson A. P. J. Abdul Kalam H. P. Lovecraft Pablo Picasso B. F. Skinner

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Business Dating Environmental Finance Religion Sympathy Valentine's Day Women