“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsLightViewsDarknessFocusChildhoodHavensInvolvedDramaGuiltBlockInnocencePushingJust BeingPushing Away Author:Marianne Williamson
“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.” KnowsChildrenCareYoungPayQualityFocusChildhoodReturnResourcesInvestmentRateHealth CareYoung ChildrenHigh QualityDividendsBettingEarly Childhood Author:J.B. Pritzker
“There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.” NovelFocusChildhood Author:Paul Auster
“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.” SelfDoneBlackAnswersFocusChildhoodHairAspectCriticalBlack WomenDefiningGet It Done Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.” ChildrenActionParentDecisionFocusChildhoodNarcissismEarly Childhood Author:Judith M Bardwick
“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.” CountryEnoughProblemSchoolOpportunityGoalPoorFocusChildhoodStudentsCollegeBabyRateEducation SystemCompletionEarly Childhood Author:Arne Duncan
“I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.” HardPlayDreamFocusChildhoodHard WorkExcitingReachingTournamentsChildhood Dreams Author:Yani Tseng
“At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.” MindTwoMatterStatesIndividualEnergyProcessMemoriesLevelsFocusChildhoodInformationEmotionalAspectFlowSecureNarrativeAttachmentAdulthoodProcessingNonverbalEnergy FlowInformation Processing Author:Daniel J. Siegel
“A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.” BelieveHas BeensRealityInspirationI BelieveHeavenNatureHalfBeautyFocusChildhoodEverydayContactClosestTrue Meaning Author:Densey Clyne
“We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.” WorldWantChildrenHas BeensRealFightingParentVoiceDifferencesMillionsFocusChildhoodMissingMovementNeededAidsHivDevastatedHiv Aids Author:Pierce Brosnan