John Holt Quotes
If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
John Holt
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
Felicity Jones
Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
Fran Lebowitz
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
Fanny Crosby
As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
Natalia Vodianova
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
Jack Palance
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
Natalie MacMaster
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James
I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
Lara Flynn Boyle
I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
Nadia Comaneci
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
Tea Leoni
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
Malcolm Turnbull
There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
Zach Galligan
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
Rafael Cruz
Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. … It seems to me that at the very heart of the controversy over the existence of mind control is a bias toward believing in the power of people to resist the power of situational forces, a belief in individual will power and faith to overcome all evil adversity. It is Jesus modeling resistance against the temptations of Satan, and not the vulnerability of Adam and Eve to deception. More recently, examples abound that challenge this person-power misattribution.
Benjamin Zablocki
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
Eric Kripke
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
John Holt
