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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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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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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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.
