"Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one……" — Carl Honore
"Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century."
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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 Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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