"When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children……" — Carl Honore
"When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing."
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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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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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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means…
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More Activities Quotes
This quote is filed under Activities Quotes,
one of 888 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is…
— Rachel Blanchard
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is…
— Andrea Bocelli
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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