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“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.”

Trying Wanted School Clear Lucky Directors Adults Decided

Author:Stephen Daldry

“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity

“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.”

Children Doe Loses Vision Clear Evidence Discovery Adults Scientist Prejudice Strive Senses Observation Preconceptions Scientific Discovery Candid Aberration

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Said Ideas Done Kids Interesting Clear Teaching Needed Projects Adults Come Up Income Enjoyed Performing Working With Others Art Projects

Author:Ed Askew

“Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.”

“By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.”

“When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.”

Mind Children Book Would Be Audience Clear Adults Teenager Marley

Author:John Grogan

“Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.”

World Problem Clear Adults Prepared

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.”

Children Results Clear Policy Adults Harm Welfare Initiative Justified

Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.”

Ifs Way Able Difficult Simple Clear Wise Adults Philosopher Complexity Distinction Great Philosophers

Book:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.”

World Lying Order Social Clear Adults Deserve Filled Response Loyalty Obedience Formal Defiance Textbooks Social Order Formal Education History Textbooks

Book:Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”