Ringo Starr Quotes

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I tried to stay with things until I thought they were on their feet and they learned to walk and talk.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

It's the best feeling in life, when you see a little human, and they look to you, to learn something in life. It's a responsibility, but it's the best feeling in life.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children's self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

I was always my own teacher.

Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the world, getting old enough to be on my own. And today we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude, if I had been afraid to be on my own.