Donald Woods Quotes

#1. Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#2. Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#3. Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

David Letterman

#4. It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#5. There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#6. The boy sat in my room for fifteen minutes last night working up the nerve to go downstairs and talk to you. Then he cam back and said 'We ate cookies. See you in the morning,' and went to his room. Give me something, Chloe.

Nikki Godwin

#7. The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#8. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

#9. There is for many a poverty of play.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#10. There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.

Donald Miller

#11. I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

Jesse Ventura

#12. Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#13. The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#14. It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

Donald Woods Winnicott

#15. We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#16. I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#17. The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#18. I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#19. It's a poor thing to be sane!

Donald Woods Winnicott

#20. The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#21. We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

Markus Zusak