Clayton Christensen Quotes
Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
Clayton Christensen
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
Malorie Blackman
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
Edmund Phelps
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
Jack McBrayer
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
J. K. Simmons
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
Candice Olson
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
Nadia Comaneci
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
Sam Brownback
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
John Ruskin
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To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.
Pierre Dukan
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You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.
Neymar
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Jesus Christ
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
Clayton Christensen
