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“Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.”

Years Humans Wells Children Has Beens Shows Given Ability Adults Tasks Comparison Village Monkeys Boston Amazon Dots

Author:Elizabeth Spelke

“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?”

People Want Young Given Grows Growing Up Advice Right Now Adults Encouragement Meaningful Meaningful Life

Author:Adora Svitak

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.”

Thinking Way Needs Wells Children Ideas Play Form Given Creativity Creative Successful Adults Likes Plenty Being Successful Leisure Toys Scope

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.”

Thinking World Trying Looks Children Given Media Messages Adults Foolish New Things

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Men Children Long Has Beens Given Chance Education Teaching Middle Ignorance Development Habit Adults Contrary Ignorant Conventions Continuing Arrested Middle Aged Cocoons

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Children Sometimes Kids Given Behinds Psychology Figures Adults Crave Junk Junk Food

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.”

People Reason Stories Feelings Young Left Given Answers Study Doubt Broken Adults Asking Response Young Adult Expected Wounded Researchers Unanswered Asking Why Broken Relationship

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.”

People Thinking World Want Children Able Next Given Chance Watches Possibility This World Projects Adults Grateful Shining Animated Boundless Sparkling Animated Movies

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.”

People Trying Kids Given Community Demand Adults Islands End Times Spend Time Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.”

Life Literature Given Adults Vulnerable Imaginary Single Life Single Women

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”

People Children Littles Made Moments Choices Given Lines Weakness Adults Expected Pretending Obedient Moments Of Weakness

Book:Little Children: A Novel

Source: Little Children: A Novel

“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Trying Children Littles Reading Given Pleasure Adults Greatest Pleasures

Author:Ann M. Martin

“I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.”

Believe Has Beens Moments Seems Used Given Process Chance Growing Up Growing Example Adults Crisis Inevitable Uncontrollable

Author:Nick Hornby

“Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.”

Knows Should Children Helping Opportunity Given Adults Capacity Helping Others

Author:Dallin H. Oaks