“I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.” ChildrenReasonBuildingProjectsRadioEngineeringElectricityInvolvingElectricalElectrical Engineering Author:Koichi Tanaka
“I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!” ThinkingFeelsShouldChildrenKidsAgeFunWonderfulCrazyProjectsTablesTrainThanksCoalHonoredRailroadsCatchySilliness Author:Jeff Coffin
“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.” IfsWorldWantChildrenSelfPlayFeelingsSelf EsteemBuildingProjectsCreatingCapacityStructureEnormousEsteemInternals Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.” PeopleThinkingChildrenBodyHappensAgeSpiritualCertainInterestAnimalCommonBoysStudyProjectsMovedReputationWickedPetFascinatedAestheticPigsGrandparentPassing AwaySpookyMoved OnGuineaBuryingHamstersAll That RemainsGuinea PigsI Moved On Author:David Sedaris
“It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.” TryingChildrenMomentsFacesDeathBeliefGrowsEasySunRichProjectsUltimateOur ChildrenMethodEmbraceTerrorStaringRitualFrozenProtectiveLive Every Moment Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.” MindChildrenUsedProjectsMy ChildrenPrizeCommitteesNobelNobel Prize Author:Leon M. Lederman
“It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.” WorldWritingChildrenProblemAbleEffortSupportKnowingTeacherImagineStudentsProjectsFoundationComplexesAbsurdOur WorldImagine ThatLiteracyComplex Problems Author:Isabel Allende
“I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.” PeopleChildrenFactsWaterMillionsAwarenessProjectsChinaAccessEducateThirstUnescoAccess To Water Author:Joyce Giraud
“Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.” WantChildrenLongSometimesLightCareRunningProjectsAdultsDistanceLong RunsVibrationsCaring For OthersAdult ChildrenGrown Children Author:Esther Hicks
“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.” WorldMindChildrenRememberSongSeriousProjectsSingingAlbumsWrapsChristmas DaySinging Songs Author:Mary J. Blige
“I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.” ThinkingShouldWritingChildrenFormSpaceProjectsShould HaveOur ChildrenLeavingBreathingYour ChildrenNecks Author:Erica Jong
“Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.” NeedsChildrenResponsibilityGroupsShareInvolvedProjectsAccomplished Author:Lilian Katz
“In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.” NeedsKindChildrenIdeasHelpingEffortPayAttentionTeacherProjectsPay AttentionInteractionCooperativesCooperative Learning Author:Lilian Katz
“I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.” LooksChildrenEndsResultsProjectsEnd Results Author:Lee Daniels
“I don't know if it's a misconception, but I often get asked why I always make stories about family and love. Over the years, I´ve also directed commercials, a children's film, and TV - dramas (both comedic and darker), because I always feel the urge to go in a different direction with my next project.” IfsKnowsFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentStoriesFilmNextTvsDramaProjectsAnd LoveUrgesMisconceptionComedicAbout FamilyDifferent DirectionsLove And Family Author:Anne Sewitsky
“In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.” WritingYearsChildrenMadeIdeasFilmLanguagePowerfulCasesNovelWrittenLetting GoProjectsDoctorsScriptsFishesCinematicPez Author:Lucia Puenzo
“When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.” ChildrenTreeProjectsHousingPhiladelphiaChristmas Tree Author:Bill Cosby
“There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.” ChildrenStillsBabyBirthPeriodsCallingProjectsOur Children Author:Paul Reiser
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantChildrenAbleNextGivenChanceWatchesPossibilityThis WorldProjectsAdultsGratefulShiningAnimatedBoundlessSparklingAnimated Movies Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.” FirstsWellsChildrenEnoughShowsKidsWantedSpaceProjectsAngelTheatreTalesIslandsFairyChicagoFairy TaleMaryUrbanAdaptationHardcoreGatewaysGrimm Author:Richard Cotovsky
“Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.” ChildrenIdeasLightEyeVisionHeardListeningProjectsActiveInfant Author:Eyvind Kang
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.” GivingChildrenStudentsProjectsAreasEmpoweringAfghanistanNow And ThenEmpowering WomenFundingScholarshipAfghanBay Area Author:Khaled Hosseini
“We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.” ChildrenJobsSupportHigherProjectsFoundationFundAwardsAfghanistanHealthcareScholarshipHigher Education Author:Khaled Hosseini
“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenStatesHumanityFightingPositionProjectsRacismRedStandingDignityBlueSpeciesUpliftingSexismHomophobiaUnderdogAnti RacismCenterpieces Author:Van Jones
“I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.” WayChildrenStillsRealMotherLeftWifeSacrificeDutyProjectsMarriedBeing TrueMy ChildrenAbandoned80sBeing MarriedPublic LifeTrue To MyselfI Love My ChildrenLove My Children Author:Patti Smith
“There's a great place for good Christian children's books. After the upcoming projects I'm working on, I'd like to turn my attention back to children's books. Maybe with a granddaughter I'll have more inspiration and new ideas.” ChildrenBookIdeasInspirationChristianTurnsAttentionProjectsNew IdeasChildren's BooksGood ChristianGranddaughter Author:Max Lucado
“There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to do with the mergers and buyouts and the corporations being more in control of the purse strings. We find that the projects have to come with higher expectations rather than books that just should be published. That's disturbing because we might find fewer and fewer children's books by African Americans or with black cultural themes.” ShouldChildrenBookMightCultureSpeakBlackStruggleMaterialsHigherProjectsExpectationsAfrican AmericanNarrativeCorporationsThemeStringsFewerDisturbingPursesChildren's BooksMergersBlack Culture Author:Jerry Pinkney