Michael Gurian Quotes

Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.

Michael Gurian

• Human Beings
• Families
• Environments
• Problem Children

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• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• My head works in music, so there's always music there.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Always
  • Head

• But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small

• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  

  Saharon Shelah
  • Time
  • Trying

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Greek
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Damn

• The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Game
  • Child
  • Movement

• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Prayer
  • Spring

• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Giving
  • Achieve
  • Fine

• I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Youth
  • Sadness

• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Special
  • Dead
  • Suicide

• I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Thinking
  • Terrified
  • Lasagna

• I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Women
  • Challenges
  • Differences

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Killing

• Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Human Beings
  • Families
  • Environments