Haim Quotes

#1. There are no redundant levels of security in the zone. That had been instructor Ben-Haim, back in my Ops 4-10 days. I'd learned all my paranoia from him. In the paranoia stakes, I was not worthy to secure his sandals.

Mark Henwick

#2. I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

Tom Odell

#3. I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.

Alana Haim

#4. I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

Corey Haim

#5. I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

Corey Haim

#6. I want to be in New Zealand SO BADLY. I've dreamt about coming to New Zealand ever since I was a kid.

Alana Haim

#7. 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

#8. If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

Haim Harari

#9. Life is meant to be easy

Jenetta Haim

#10. I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

Corey Haim

#11. I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just ... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

Alana Haim

#12. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

Corey Haim

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

Haim Ginott

#14. I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

Alana Haim

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

Haim Ginott

#16. 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

#17. It is much easier to choose to be a good person than to think good thoughts.

Haim Shapira

#18. The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.

Haim Harari

#19. I love Rihanna, Rihanna seems like a fun person to be friends with, she seems like a fun time to be [around].

Alana Haim

#20. 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

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

Haim Ginott

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

Haim Ginott

#23. I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines ...

Haim Harari

#24. For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

Corey Haim

#25. My mom saved my life. She gave me mouth-to-mouth more than once.

Corey Haim

#26. I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Corey Haim

#27. I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

#28. I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

Corey Haim

#29. I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Corey Haim

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

Haim Ginott

#31. My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

Corey Haim

#32. I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'

Corey Haim

#33. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

Corey Haim

#34. I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

Corey Haim

#35. I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg.

Corey Haim

#36. When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

Corey Haim

#37. I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Corey Haim

#38. A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

Haim Harari

#39. 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

#40. Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Corey Haim

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

Haim G. Ginott

#42. I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Corey Haim

#43. I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.

Alana Haim

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

Haim Ginott

#45. Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

Haim Harari

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

Haim Ginott

#47. What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

Corey Haim

#48. Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what for do they do the things they do and have been doing for so many years?

Haim Shapira

#49. I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Corey Haim

#50. I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Corey Haim

#51. 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

#52. I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Corey Haim

#53. I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Corey Haim

#54. I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Corey Haim

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

Haim Ginott

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

Haim G. Ginott

#57. Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

Corey Haim

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

Haim Ginott

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

Haim Ginott

#60. You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

Corey Haim

#61. I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

Alana Haim

#62. Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

Corey Haim

#63. Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.

Corey Haim

#64. Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

Haim Harari

#65. It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

Corey Haim

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

Haim Ginott

#67. It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.

Haim Shapira

#68. I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Corey Haim

#69. If it isn't broken don't try to fix it

Jenetta Haim

#70. 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

#71. I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

Corey Haim

#72. Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

Corey Haim

#73. 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

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

Haim Ginott