James Hillman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

  James Hillman

  Children, Kids, Doctors

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

• We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

  James Hillman

  Children, Emotional, Imagination

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, White

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

• Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

  James Hillman

  Children, Military, Book

• I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."

  James Hillman

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

• A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Dream, Country

  Source: scottlondon.com

• What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

  James Hillman

  Children, Destiny, Feelings

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Teachers today can't take to a child.

  James Hillman

  Teacher, Children, Today

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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