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Quotes About Impressionable

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
~ Garrison Keillor
3. Suggestibility
~ Jim Paul
I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I sucked the sugar off and cheerfully ran off, spitting out the message undigested. (Despite going to church several times every Sunday for my who childhood, I never figured out Aslan was Jesus until told later.)
~ Jo Walton
Cuando era niña, para mí el lujo eran los abrigos de pieles, los vestidos de noche y las mansiones a orillas del mar.
~ Annie Ernaux
It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.
~ Lisa Stansfield
Impressionable audiences should be seeing characters that are properly fleshed out.
~ Percelle Ascott
La amorfa capacidad de impresionarse adquiere categoría bajo el nombre de temperamento creativo
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
~ J. K. Rowling
There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
~ Garry Trudeau
Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
~ Clare Balding
I went to see a children's matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called 'The Bad Seed.' It just terrified me.
~ Robert Englund
It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.
~ Roberto Bolano
That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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~ Rudolf Steiner
Sanguines are usually graceful and full of life. They notice and respond to everything and everyone in their environment. They move quickly from one impression or experience to the next and rarely remain with anything for long. They can therefore be restless, distractible, or fickle. Sanguines tend to be sociable, for they are personable, vivacious, and light-hearted.
~ Rudolf Steiner
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
~ Minor White
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
~ Walt Disney
Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento
~ Anthony de Mello
Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted by the idea of people living glamorously beyond my provincial horizons.
~ Richard Coles
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
~ Gary Paulsen
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
~ Muriel Spark
She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...
~ Francine Pascal
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.
~ Peter Singer