Quotes About Nurture

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

Prodigies, it seemed, were made, not born. As Bloom later told reporters: "We were looking for exceptional kids, but what we found were exceptional conditions." This was a cornerstone finding, replicated and expanded and potent. The idea settled an uneasy corner of the nature/nurture debate: it democratized expertise. Provided the right environment and the proper encouragement, it meant that everyone had a shot at perfection. It meant there were no "chosen few.

The one commonality was encouragement, a lot of encouragement. In each case, there was a parent or close relative who rewarded any display of talent, and ignored or punished the opposite. Prodigies, it seemed, were made, not born.

Steven Pinker

Those plants are so fragile, they had to domesticate humans just to take endless care of them!

Any movement that calls itself "scientific" but fails to nurture opportunities for the testing of its own beliefs (most obviously when it murders or imprisons the people who disagree with it) is not a scientific movement.

The mind cannot be a blank slate, because blank slates don't do anything.

Forever continue to love, heal and educate the children. The future shines on them.

Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer.

Love sustains everything.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Life is a flower of which love is honey.

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.

Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.