Formative Period Quotes

I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

The first years in office are necessarily important in the life of a young man.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

I was seven and a half, nearly eight when I arrived. I was always a Porto fan, so they were 12 extremely big years for me.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.