Guy Claxton quotes

“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”
-- Guy Claxton

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“Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.”
-- Guy Claxton

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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“Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.”
-- Guy Claxton

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.120, A&C Black

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“Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.”
-- Guy Claxton

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.275, A&C Black

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“We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.”
-- Guy Claxton

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.254, A&C Black

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“Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.”
-- Guy Claxton

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“Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.”
-- Guy Claxton

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“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”
-- Guy Claxton

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.282, A&C Black

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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.”

Source : A. C. Green (1994). “Victory”, Creation House

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.”

“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”

“Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.”

“I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.”

“I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.”

“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”

Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”