William Damon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.
-- William Damon
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
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As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
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He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.†I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health
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To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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