"As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words."

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Source : "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Book by Betty Edwards, 1979.

Betty Edwards

#Children Quotes #Reality Quotes #Years Quotes

“Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?”
“The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.”
“Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.”

Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48
“I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.”
“That shot was going goalboundward”
“Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.”

Source : "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.
“It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”
“I'm not really a model.”

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