Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Emotions interest me, and I'm fascinated by how a child's mind works.

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.