Warren Farrell Quotes

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

My father didn't push me.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

Watching promos of my dad and stepdad... it's a lot to live up to. I don't want to make them look stupid.