James Hillman Quotes

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

I have two beautiful children. And they really are my strength.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors - you have to show a certain sort of respect. You deal with them lovingly and protect them, but if you protect them enough then they're open to engage with what you want to do with them.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.