Ginott Quotes

#1. Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind

Seneca.

#2. Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Haim Ginott

#3. While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Haim G. Ginott

#4. Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Haim Ginott

#5. Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Haim Ginott

#6. You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. She smelled faintly of wildflowers. But beneath that she smelled like autumn leaves. Like the dark smell of her own hair, like road dust and the air before a summer storm.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.

Haim G. Ginott

#9. Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables,

Roald Dahl

#10. Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Jessica Livingston

#11. Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

John Irving

#12. A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

Haim Ginott

#13. Phone calls in the dead of the night never brought good news.

Haruki Murakami

#14. The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Haim Ginott

#15. Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Tom Peters

#16. Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Haim Ginott

#17. 147Why should God make you suffer torment if you are thankful and believe in Him? God always rewards gratitude and He knows everything.

Anonymous

#18. When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Haim G. Ginott

#19. They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole.

Danielle Steel

#20. To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Haim Ginott

#21. To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

Haim Ginott

#22. The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

Hain Ginott

#23. I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

Sophie Hannah

#24. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#25. Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Haim Ginott

#26. Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

Haim Ginott

#27. If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Haim G. Ginott

#28. Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Haim G. Ginott

#29. Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

Haim Ginott

#30. When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Haim Ginott

#31. Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested in how they feel and in their point of view.

Haim G. Ginott

#32. It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

Mark Twain

#33. As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

Preet Bharara

#34. Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

Haim Ginott

#35. Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Haim Ginott