Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Andy [Hallett] was a real man - you can tell an adult by how they deal with pain or adversity. Andy's eyeballs… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
That was probably the most important fight of my career...he was this crazy guy, who acted like most adults that I knew… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame… — John Green Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Couples stray,” said Edgar. “Part of the breaking-in process.” “Not breaking in, breaking.” Nicola differed sharply. “You can glue people together again.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a… — David Rees Copy Share Image
the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult,… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
“I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids” — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
“You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image