Jane Nelsen famous quotes

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?
-- Jane Nelsen

#Children #Crazy #Order

Children do better when they feel better.
-- Jane Nelsen

#Children #Feel Better #Feels

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.
-- Jane Nelsen

#People #Parent #Perception

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others
-- Jane Nelsen

#Reality #Trying #Energy

What we do is never as important as how we do it.
-- Jane Nelsen

#Important #Action

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.