Chris Martin Quotes

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.

I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

No man can discover his own talents.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

When you're 26, you can do anything.

I love being able to fulfill such a huge and special part of myself with Pentatonix. But there is still so much more to me that, honestly, people don't get to see because we're in a group.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.