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.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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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.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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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.
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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.
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I am a Zionist.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
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I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
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The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
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Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
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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.
