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Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Attack Become Child Distress Explicit Frightened Good Hearing How Instead Know Listening Lonely Means Most Out Pain Parent Parents Reliable Safest Say Then Thing Unfairly Very Which Words World

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I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Around Become Did Dump Effectively English Fooling Foreign Funny Get Hated Jewish Joker Laugh Make Me Name Otherwise People Prep Problem Quite Real Real Problem Round School Small Sport Very Way Which Who Would

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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Become Ever Never Nightmare Writer

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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Atmosphere Bad Become Being Community Depending Depends Good Great Live Lot Out Paper Particular Sent Sounds Space Tend Within Workplace

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I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Become Expectations High Just Little Love Meet More Our Say Them Too Want

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For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

~Alain Dehaze

Topics: Appropriate Become Career Career Path Choosing Employer Factor Key Millennials Mobility Path Potential Selecting

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One way to become more attractive as an employer to millennials is to offer different kinds of contracts - not only the classical contract of indefinite duration, but also to be open to having more contractors and flexibility.

~Alain Dehaze

Topics: Also Attractive Become Classical Contract Contractors Contracts Different Different Kinds Duration Employer Flexibility Having Indefinite Kinds Millennials More Offer One Way Only Open Way

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Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Become Chefs Earn Goal Just Stars

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TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Artisan Become Caricature Chef Excessive Star Stay Tv Vision

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I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Among Approach Authentic Become Buying Cuisine First Follow Others Product Products Putting Revealing Same Take Taste Want Wanted

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