David Elkind Quotes
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.
David Elkind
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
Jack Davenport
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Jack Nicklaus
You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Taraji P. Henson
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
Karan Johar
I am a Zionist.
Yair Lapid
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.
Ellen Bass
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Carly Simon
Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
Christopher Rouse
I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
Barack Obama
I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
K. Flay
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.
David Elkind
