"Smaller families mean we have more time and……" — Carl Honore
"Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets."
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Carl Honore
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21 Quotes by Carl Honore
Carl Honore has 21 quotes on this site.
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a…
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By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love…
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In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background…
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My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a…
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk;…
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but…
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to…
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling…
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering,…
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm,…
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the…
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More Anxious Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
— Jensen Ackles
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are…
— Andrew Bernstein
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh,…
— Jeff Bridges
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for…
— Edmund Burke
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst…
— Lord Byron
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