Alex Abreu Quotes

The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.

Alex Abreu

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• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Self-respect

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Live
  • Children
  • Water

• Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, 'Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Children
  • Perspective

• We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Hand

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Children
  • Parents

• My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Children
  • Worry

• Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Children

• The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Children
  • Real
  • Education

• I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

  

  Mark Teixeira
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Children
  • Boundaries

• Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

  

  Dustin Yellin
  • People
  • Nature
  • Science

• I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

  

  David Johansen
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Wind

• The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.

  

  Alex Abreu
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Understand