Later In Life Quotes - Page 5

• A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Memories, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  Cara Delevingne

  School, Wish, Littles

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• It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

  Bill Nighy

  Fame

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• The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Skills, Feelings, Facts

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• By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Growing Up, Teaching

  Cheryl Richardson (2003). “Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Two, Outcomes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

  Joe Bradley

  Taken, Looks, Detours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Effort

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• Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

  Twyla Tharp

  Issues, Interesting, Focus

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• Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Gay, Discovering, Happened

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