Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,... how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An orange grown in Florida usually has a thin and tightly fitting skin, and it is also heavy with juice. Californians say that if ...you want to eat a Florida orange you have to get into a bathtub first. California oranges are light in weight and have thick skins that break easily and come off in hunks. The flesh inside is marvelously sweet, and the segments almost separate themselves. In Florida, it is said that you can run over a California orange with a ten-ton truck and not even wet the pavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a great... one with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ...ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In... the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It goes without saying that religion thus conceived is the opposite of magic. The latter is essentially selfish, the former admits... of and often even demands disinterestedness. The one claims to force the compliance of nature, the other implores the favor of a god. Above all, magic works in an environment which is semi-physical and semi-moral--the magician, at all events is not dealing with a person; whereas on the contrary it is from the god's personality that religion draws its greatest efficacy. Granted that primitive intelligence thinks it perceives around it, in phenomena and in events, elements of personality rather than complete personalities, religion, as we have just understood it, will ultimately reinforce these elements to the extent of completely personifying them; whereas magic looks upon them as debased, dissolved, as it were, in a material world in which their efficacy can be tapped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someday our grandchildren will look up at us and say, "Where were you, Grandma, and what were you doing when you first realized th...at President Reagan was, er, not playing with a full deck?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical impor...tance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »