It is not easy to construct by mere scientific synthesis a foolproof system which will lead our children in a desired direction an...d avoid an undesirable one. Obviously, good can come only from a continuing interplay between that which we, as students, are gradually learning and that which we believe in, as people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can ...surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me tha...t sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is come...dy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Temperament is the natural, inborn style of behavior of each individual. It's the how of behavior, not the why.... The question is... not, "Why does he behave a certain way if he doesn't get a cookie?" but rather, "When he doesn't get a cookie, how does he express his displeasure...?" The environment--and your behavior as a parent--can influence temperament and interplay with it, but it is not the cause of temperamental characteristics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »