Adolescence as the time when ...

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.
 G. Stanley Hall

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
 G. Stanley Hall
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
 G. Stanley Hall
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
 G. Stanley Hall
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
 G. Stanley Hall