Tino Sehgal Quotes

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

Men are what their mothers made them.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.