"I see the mind of the five-year-old as……" — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness."
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16 Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However…
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand…
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You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to…
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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of…
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a…
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A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
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When I teach people, I marry them.
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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot…
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The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
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More Creativeness Quotes
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary…
— Eric Hoffer
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There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a…
— Bertrand Russell
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We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark…
— Minor White
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or…
— Ben Harper
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Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot…
— Ernest Holmes
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Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse.…
— Till Lindemann
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If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just…
— Francis Schaeffer
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...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...
— Muhammad Asad
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My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem…
— Abraham Maslow
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However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during…
— Tran ?uc Luong
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We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
— Alexander Dubcek
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Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness,…
— Abraham Maslow
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