Anna Quindlen Quotes

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.