A Quote by Howard Schultz
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.
From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.
The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think
The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in Ohio, and my father went to Harvard. That wasn't unusual. There was a feeling that anything was possible and you didn't have to be born into money to have a successful life. Now, people don't believe in the idea that anything is possible. We have more inequality than we've had ever before and a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.
Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.
I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.
I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.
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