“To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.” WantNeedsHumansMeanEmotionAdultsOppositesTensionCherishAdoreOpposingReconcileConflicting EmotionsConflicting Ideas Author:Stephen Fry
“It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make sense of those things.” MindMeanI CanCertainReligiousStupidSixAdultsOppositesSevenBrilliantMake SenseRecallsRestrictionStupid ThingsVery StupidBrilliant Minds Author:Al Jaffee
“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!” PeopleIfsChildrenTwoWholeFactsLife IsCertainChristHalfAdultsOppositesMeetingsSavedWhole Life Author:Dwight L. Moody
“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.” PeopleNeedsUseHappensAbleGrowthDecisionInformationDevelopmentTrainingAdultsOppositesPersonal GrowthTreatedWorkplaceProfessional Development Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.” NeedsKindProblemLightHappensNightMorningToo MuchMissingBedAdultsOppositesTreatsMarkWake UpRhythmBright LightsCircadian RhythmOlder Adults Author:Shelby Harris
“We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'” KnowsImportantCertainAttitudeAdultsSkinsOppositesLongingBeerWrinkles Author:Robert Bly
“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.” LittlesMotherGirlWorryDaughterAdultsOppositesCuteReliefAdolescenceRelaxed Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye
“Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.” IfsChildrenHelpingSeemsGrowthRealizingAdultsConnectionsOppositesAbsenceManipulationDesirableIdenticalUndesirable Author:Erich Fromm
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.” InspirationalChildrenPlayMotivationalTogetherOrderEnergyEnemyCreativityCreativeAdultsOppositesIntelligenceBe CreativeMiraculousCarpe DiemCarpeInner ChildComing TogetherChildren PlayingImagination And CreativityImagination CreativityRelated To Creativity Author:Norman Podhoretz