Quotes About Formative

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

That the two religions were engaged in a contested Passover–Easter dialogue at this formative moment is not in doubt. Even after the Council of Nicaea in 325, with Constantine himself present, separated out the two holidays and made sure that should they fall on the same day it would be the Jews who moved their Passover, that combative dialogue continued.

The influences of our childhood and youth cannot be underestimated, I believe: those are the experiences that shape us, far beyond their immediate power

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave." "Get off my chin." "I like that about you. Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth. Under the right circumstances, even entire civilizations." I blink. "You're going to be one hell of a woman one day, Dani.

Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative.

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

Assessment has several roles. The first is diagnostic, to help teachers understand students' aptitude and levels of development. The second is formative, to gather information on students' work and activities and to support their progress. The third is summative, which is about making judgments on overall performance at the end of a program of work.

Consciousness did not exist from the beginning, and in every child it has to be built up anew in the first years of life. Consciousness is very weak in this formative period, and history shows us that the same is true of mankind—the unconscious easily seizes power.