To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.
I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.
Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.
In judging character in youth, we recognize, first of all, that it is a mark of soundness in a boy's nature that he is spurred by desire of praise: upon this rests emulation
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.
The young are always in extremes.
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.
