Itβs about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma ThompsonRead
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Children benefit more from being listened to attentively than from unsolicited advice.
This quote emphasizes the importance of active listening to children. It suggests that rather than constantly advising or instructing them, adults should focus on being fully present and attentive to what children express, thereby validating their thoughts and feelings.
Themes
ListeningChildrenCommunicationAdviceEmpathy
In practice
Example use cases
A teacher might share this quote during a parent-teacher conference to highlight the importance of listening to students.
More from Emma Thompson
All quotes βIf you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
Emma ThompsonRead
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
Emma ThompsonRead
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
Emma ThompsonRead
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Emma ThompsonRead
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
Emma ThompsonRead
Similar quotes
I've seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there's no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I've also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.
Ruby BridgesRead
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
Azim PremjiRead
All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.
Robert PinskyRead
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
Mao ZedongRead
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
H. G. WellsRead
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Katherine PatersonRead