“My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.” WholeChildhoodNew YorkLateMusicianConsciousOrganizationFilledConcertsClassical MusicEnsembleStarters Author:Gunther Schuller
“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
“The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.” PeoplePartyChildhoodConsciousAbsolutesPhrasesEnlightenedCommunistSovietConcreteDictatorSecretaryCommunist Party Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.” KnowsWayShouldBelieveChildrenLongStillsI CanI BelieveStuffRealizingDecisionChildhoodBehaviorConsciousGood ThingsMy ChildrenBehaveControlledTake MeI Have Learned Author:Joyce Meyer
“My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.” FeelsDreamMemoriesInterestingBrainChildhoodConsciousSubconsciousInteresting ThingsChildhood Memories Author:Akram Khan
“The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.” HumansNaturalAnimalMagicChildhoodApproachConsciousAdultsVersionsUnconsciousComprehension Author:Seth
“Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into that warm, cradled state reminiscent of childhood that's so seductive to a woman - a home.” GivingLooksSelfStatesHomeWomenSituationChildhoodGiving UpConsciousWarmEaseSeductiveSelf SufficiencySufficiency Author:Colette Dowling
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley