“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.” PeopleTryingChildrenYoungActorsCausesLosesActingRolesModelsAdultsStinkKeep LearningChild Actors Author:Haley Joel Osment
“Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.” WellsPersonsStrongWomenRolesModelsAdultsHealUnconditional LoveRole ModelsUnconditionalYoungsters Author:Ann Landers
“The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.” IfsYoungTurnsFictionSuccessfulModelsAdultsWinnerOnlineUsers Book:You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.” WorldFeelsChildrenLittlesCharacterProcessGreaterChildhoodIntellectualModelsConsciousAdultsBiggerFamiliarSurroundingsMemories Dreams ReflectionsMiniatures Author:Carl Jung
“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.” WorldLongStillsReasonJobsGuyRolesWiseLike YouTypeLong TimeModelsAdultsPressureBillsOddRole ModelsGrandfatherLong Time AgoYour Best Friend Author:Kevin Smith
“First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.” WantNeedsShouldFirstsChildrenWatchesKindnessModelsAdultsOur Children Author:Brené Brown
“I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.” FeelsSchoolJobsYoungFeltRolesModelsHigh SchoolAdultsYoung AdultTeenagerRole ModelsOddsYoung WomenPersonal LifeProfessional Life Author:Tavi Gevinson
“It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.” KindChildrenSchoolCertainPathModelsAdultsWesternCurrentsFocusedCuriousCorporateEfficientUrbanUnitsOpen MindedWrong Path Author:David W. Orr
“The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."” ThinkingNeedsChildrenI CanIdeasBlackRolesInfluenceModelsAdultsDoctorsRole Models Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?” PeopleIfsTwoModelsAdultsDisappearAdulthood Author:Robert Bly
“I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.” ThinkingMightAsksDecisionRolesModelsAdultsDinnerPostsAcknowledgeRole ModelsLiving My LifeThrustThinking Ahead Author:Nick Jonas
“There isn't any problem with little girls. And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women. I mean, they are model citizens. It's the guys that create all of the problems in our culture. And so it's the guys that have to be reprogrammed. Not the women.” MeanLittlesProblemYoungGuyCultureGirlCitizensModelsAdultsYoung Women Author:Rush Limbaugh