Quotes by Regina Brett - Page 3

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Crawling
Do You Know
Grandkids
Milk
Pants
Spouse
Worn
Babies
Phone
Pony
Rides
Shirt
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Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Big Picture
Connected
Contact
Eye
Eye Contact
Focused
Forget
Hands
Old Days
People
Remember
Sometimes
Tiny
Looking
Picture
Had
Big
Everyone
Become
Days
Stay
Old
Device
Disconnect
Down
Front
Right
Screen
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I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Jobs
Offering
Thinking
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I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Friendship
Book
Conflict
Giving
Hardship
Overcoming
Pages
Young Adult
Time Family Hope
Appeal
Author
Grab
Page
Sentence
Themes
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My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Decision
Freeze
Moving
Position
Problem
Tag
Used
Wrong Decision
Life Decision Your
Afraid
Played
Game
Life Long Your
Wrong
Making
My Life
Statue
Whenever
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It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'
Regina Brett / Columnist
Running
Calendars
Duty
Jury
Jury Duty
Mail
People
Scream
Rare
Calendar
Followed
How Many People
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If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Fries
Order
Paragraph
Phones
Pounds
Salad
Scary
Screening
Writing
Phone
Phone Call
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We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Differences
Mean
People
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When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Bed
Caught
Five
Ideas
Lessons
Life Lesson
My Soul
Paper
Ran
Reflecting
Soul
Taught
Life Soul Me
Added
Hit
Column
Simply
Lay
Newspaper
Pen
Turned
Typed
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For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Cancer
Doctors
Thank God
Warning
Basis
Heeded
Looked
Monthly
Quick
Thank
Thoroughly
Unsettling
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Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Anger
Depression
Blinders
Break
Eye
Handle
Horse
Illness
Loneliness
Next
Pain
Sadness
Too Much
Actually
Days
Challenge
Stay
Each
Small
Hour
Moment
Piece
Task
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From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Believe
Prayer
Real
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