#con

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results. ↗

— Major Taylor

#appears #center #concentrate #enough #failure

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#been #best #change #greatest #important

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. ↗

— Noah Taylor

#any #art #control #desires #me

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#delight #focused #gift #lesson #moment

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#attention #bringing #chance #child #competition

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. ↗

— William Temple

#conversation #educational #factors #home #influential

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. ↗

— William Temple

#first #fourth #good #good sense #humor

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

#back #centuries #century #convinced #descendants