Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Quotes
Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.
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I don’t care if she knew about this. She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.
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We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
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Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
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The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
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The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
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Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.
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When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.
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Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.
