Formative Quotes

67 quotes by 64 authors

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change. — Claire Cook
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live… — Swami Vivekananda
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures… — Lionel Tiger
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth… — Fred Rogers
This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended… — Eugene H. Peterson
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the… — Ned Sublette
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is… — Maria Montessori
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute… — Steve Albini
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues… — Gary Neville
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I… — Michael Lee-Chin
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal,… — James Laughlin
I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for… — Matthew Rhys
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as… — Daniel Sunjata
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. — Jacques Lacan
A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis… — Calvin Seerveld
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed… — Herbert Croly
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child… — Nick Clegg
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in… — Stanley Donen
My mother was a politician in my formative years. — Antonia Fraser

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