G Stanley Hall Quotes

#1. Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

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#2. Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

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#3. I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

Morgan Freeman

#4. Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

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#6. The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

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#7. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

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#8. Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

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#9. This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking ...

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#10. ...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food manufacturers know well how to push the buttons that evoke this fear.

Michael Moss

#11. Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

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#12. Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

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#13. Every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

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#14. Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

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#15. Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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#16. Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

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#17. And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Conor Oberst

#18. Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

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#19. The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They

Susan Cain

#20. We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms ...

Paul Stanley

#21. The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

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#22. The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

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#23. Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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#24. Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

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#25. Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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#26. Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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#27. But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

Ian McDiarmid

#28. Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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#29. Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Stanley Marcus

#30. Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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#31. It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Stanley

#32. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Stanley

#33. I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

Paul Stanley

#34. Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

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#35. There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

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