Quotes by Ellen Goodman

“Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience— unless they are still up.”

“Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”

“Things keep changing and things keep happening. I never really run out of ideas. I guess as long as I'm interested, I'll be interesting.”

“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.”

“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”

“We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”

“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of o...”

“What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wande...”

“When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.”

“You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.”