“I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.” ThinkingKnowsImportantKidsAgeYoungBoundariesYoung Age Author:Britney Spears
“I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young age to believe in magic. Our mom used to take us to fairy parties. As we got older, I was always very drawn to manifesting my own destiny...learning how to do spells and personal ritual.” ThinkingWorldBelieveAgeYoungUsedMy OwnPartyDestinyMagicMomFairyRitualManifestSpellsMetaphysicalYoung Age Author:Jessica Origliasso
“I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.” ThinkingNeedsMeanEndsHardAgeBeautifulYoungPleasureBoysTeachPerformancesConnectedIntimacyAggressiveYoung AgeReciprocityTouch Me Author:Eve Ensler
“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.” BigsAgeLastsYoungGamesGoalBaseballStrikesScoreHockeyYoung AgeCountingTeammateBaseball GamesPlaying BaseballLacrossePlaying Hockey Author:Wayne Gretzky
“I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.” AgeWantedYoungForceSpecialTvsYoung AgeSpecial Forces Author:Bear Grylls
“I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and its something that carries with me to this day.” AgeYoungTaughtTrainingPreparationCarrieThis DayYoung AgeEnsemble Author:Michelle Dockery
“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.” WellsAgeYoungParentAchieveHugeMarkPressureRaisedUniversityKeep GoingMy SisterEmphasisYoung AgeAttorney Author:David Schwimmer
“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.” NeedsChildrenAgeYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingYoung AgeFoster Children Author:Michelle Monaghan
“My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.” LittlesPlayHomeAgeTogetherYoungSongRecordsBrotherLessonsDecidedPianoYoung AgeLittle BrotherPiano LessonMy Little Brother Author:Josephine de La Baume
“Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.” KnowsNeedsSometimesAgeYoungCertainActorsGrowsYoung Age Author:Elias Koteas
“I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.” WorldAgeYoungNaturalMarriedYoung AgeNatural WorldIntriguedSynthetic Author:Imtiaz Ali
“Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life.” WholeHelpingAgeYoungEnergyHealthySkinsOutlookYoung AgeOutlook On Life Author:Phoebe Tonkin
“Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.” ThinkingCountryAgeYoungPlayerTaughtInstinctSoccerKillersOther CountriesYoung AgeFinishingDrillsSoccer PlayerKiller InstinctMost Favorite Author:Landon Donovan
“It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.” DifferentAgeSchoolYoungNiceSuitsUniformsYoung AgeSchool Uniforms Author:Zelo
“Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.” WorldMeanDifferentAgeYoungJesusLostStrongChristSituationChildhoodCarFrontsBrotherMomJesus ChristMy MomMy BrotherAdulthoodYoung AgeMean The World To Me Author:Adrian Peterson
“I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.” AgeYoungDifferencesAcceptingRacismRaisedI RealizedYoung AgeLove Everyone Author:Nia Long
“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.” LightAgeWantedYoungImaginationChildhoodOrdinaryScaredActiveClosetsMy ImaginationYoung Age Author:Stephen King
“People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.” PeopleTryingYearsAgeYoungLoudFascinatedYoung Age Author:Brandi Carlile
“I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.” AgeYoungYoung AgeVacuumsCleaners Author:Xavier Rudd
“Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.” BelieveLongAgeYoungParentCan DoExistenceLong TimeLosingYoung AgeLong Time Ago Author:Jon Hamm
“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.” LongAgeWantedYoungLevelsHighestDecidedSoccerYoung Age Author:Mia Hamm
“We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.” IfsNeedsMindRealAgeYoungOpportunityImaginationSucceedSkillsYoung AgeInstill Author:Michael N. Castle
“For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.” MenStoriesAgeYoungLeftParentInterestingEmotionalConsequencePeterSpidersYoung AgeReally InterestingSpider Man Author:Marc Webb
“Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.” SaidStoriesAgeYoungHugeCamerasSingersAll TimeInterviewsYoung AgeAnd OffAll Time FavoriteFavorite Singer Author:Christina Aguilera
“From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.” LittlesDoneAgeWantedYoungFeltActingCrazyTheaterMusicalYoung AgeIncompleteMusical TheaterStir Crazy Author:Alexander Koch
“The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.” StillsAgeYoungAliveYoung AgeSpringtimeKickingYoungsters Author:Charles Lloyd
“I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.” AgeYoungBornHeardSpecialPlanetsMastersGeniusTownsWingsTrackYoung AgePianistNewbornRight TrackMemphisReally Deep Author:Charles Lloyd
“From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.” WritingAgeJobsYoungMotherFunAdviceVery GoodYoung AgeGood Advice Author:Joanne Harris
“The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.” FeelsChildrenImportantProblemAgeYoungFeltLuckyImportant ThingsConstantYoung AgeUnlovedConvoluted Author:Allegra Huston
“Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.” PeopleKnowsMadeAgeTogetherRememberYoungFightingCausesLaughingReadyBrotherGood TimesBrothers And SistersCousinYoung AgeLove Each OtherHave A LaughTogether As OneSisters And Friends Author:Courteney Cox
“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.” ThinkingIdeasHardLightAgeSpiritualYoungReligionFatherProcessWomenVoiceWaterAnswersTelevisionIntellectualConversionYoung AgeDeitiesBishopsPouringCatechismBlinding Light Author:Susan Jacoby
“The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.” IfsThinkingLifeFeelsShouldMindLooksAgePainMovingYoungJoyWorrySeeingReflectionYoung Age Author:Swami Nithyananda
“I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.” IfsThinkingImportantAgeYoungActingBreakCollegeGet AwayYoung AgeGoing To College Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.” AgeYoungThreeMillionsPiecesWindDadMy DadEnginesRecallsThree TimesYoung AgeChristmas Gift Author:Homaro Cantu
“I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.” YearsAgeYoungLeftBornGrewGrew UpWestEducatedIranYoung Age Author:Hooman Majd
“I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I think it is important to understand who you are.” ThinkingWayImportantAgeYoungRaceNegativeWho You AreBackgroundsYoung Age Author:Misty Copeland
“Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.” IfsLittlesAgeYoungTurnsHeardTaughtSweetEasierCharmingYoung WomenYoung AgeTurn-onComplacentAmberDocileCharming Smile Author:Amber Heard
“I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.” ArtCountryShowsKidsAgeAbleYoungParentEnjoyRecordsBrotherListeningGrewKissingGrew UpMusicalAlbumsDrawingStaringMy BrotherTunesHouseholdVansYoung AgeVan HalenPhotoshopAlbum CoversShow Tunes Author:Piggy D.
“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.” MenFeelsHomeBigsAgeYoungFeltWeakDecidedIndependenceChaosRelyStableHouseholdHelplessBig ThingsYoung Age Author:Christina Aguilera
“A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.” YearsShowsAgeSchoolYoungSixHigh SchoolStuckYoung Age Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.” FirstsKidsAgeYoungBitsActingWatchesSeeingTasteCamerasPopsBugsYoung AgeHarlem Author:Tracy Morgan
“I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.” WritingYearsWould BeAgeTodayWantedYoungDoubtTaughtEditorsGiftedYoung AgeAmazing Experiences Author:Julie Klassen
“One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.” IfsKnowsAgeYoungLeaderTeacherInfluenceOne DayMassBackgroundsIdeologyBuddhistRevolutionaryPotBrutalDictatorMurdererMonkYoung AgeChairmanLamaMaoDalaiChairman MaoFamily Background Author:Dalai Lama
“I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.” YearsFirstsAgeWantedYoungLostCommunityActingSawsTheaterProfessionYoung AgeIndianaArkRaiders Author:Guy Wilson
“I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was to teach self-reliance. So I had the experience of relying on myself very early in life in order to have that knowing, because otherwise I would've just read about it. I think of it now as a great advantage that I had. It certainly taught me to rely upon myself at a very young age. And that's what I've been teaching since I was a little boy.” ThinkingBelieveLittlesSelfAgeYoungPurposeOrderI BelieveBoysTeachKnowingOur LivesTeachingTaughtAdvantageRelyPurpose Of LifeSelf RelianceRelianceYoung AgeLittle BoysRely Upon Author:Wayne Dyer
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.” PhilosophyAgeYoungCoursesParentCareersShareFortunateEncountersHappy LifeYoung Age Author:Keke Palmer
“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.” AgeWantedYoungMemoriesTakenReaderBecomingLibraryLocalsLogicalYoung AgeLibrarianBooksellers Author:Michael Scott
“I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.” IfsThinkingMenKindRealSometimesHardAgeYoungFatherFeltGoalNaturalMy OwnAchieveDisciplineEthicsCompetitionPersonal LifeWork EthicYoung AgeWill PowerKnackReal WorkAchieving Goals Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I’m 51 going on 52, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.” WayAgeWantedFilmYoungLostActingPerformancesFascinatedNew WaysYoung AgeDeanFilm Acting Author:Nicolas Cage
“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.” YearsFirstsLittlesI CanHomeAgeYoungThreeMemoriesFourFeetBallsFour YearsYoung AgeNeighbourhoods Author:Lionel Messi