How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood - Harold Ramis

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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Not to grow up properly is to retain our ‘caterpillar’ quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don’t grow out of it in the fullness of time, our caterpillar nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists and quacks. The genius of the human child, mental caterpillar extraordinary, is for soaking up information and ideas, not for criticizing them. If critical faculties later grow it will be in spite of, not because of, the inclinations of childhood. The blotting paper of the child’s brain is the unpromising seedbed, the base upon which later the sceptical attitude, like a struggling mustard plant, may possibly grow. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive scepticism of adult science.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

Sometimes I wish I was a little kid again skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

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