Hal Sparks Quotes

Things you learn through the arts are used every day in life. It's a great way to express yourself and get out anxieties throughout the day.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

The arts can be used to socialize young people.

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.