Quotes
Authors
David Elkind
"Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves." --
Source : David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press
David Elkind
#Children Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Responsibility Quotes
“Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.”
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”
“I played Futebol de Salão for many years and it helped me to become the player I am today. There you don't have time to think, you are always tightly marked and you develop a sense for performing in small spaces.”
“Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.”
“Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...”
“I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.”
“First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
