Ansen Quotes & Sayings

Kids don't watch when they are stimulated and look away when they are bored. They watch when they understand and look away when they are confused. If you are in the business of educational television, this is a critical difference. It means if you want to know whether-and what-kids are learning from a TV show, all you have to do is to notice what they are watching. And if you want to know what kids aren't learning, all you have to do is notice what they aren't watching. Preschoolers are so sophisticated in their viewing behavior that you can determine the stickiness of children's programming by simple observation. — Malcolm Gladwell

He that is jealous is not in love. — Augustine Of Hippo

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow. — Scott Berkun

Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland. — J.R. Ward

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot. — Tony Dungy

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. — Ansen Dibell

When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry. — Freeman Dyson

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods. — David Ansen

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' — David Ansen

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that. — Adam Duritz

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because ... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does. — Maimonides

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. — Walter Jon Williams

A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story's beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on. — Ansen Dibell

We are the movies and the movies are us. — David Ansen

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. — David Ansen

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that. — Charles R. Swindoll

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech. — Marvin Ammori

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. — Ansen Dibell

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering. — Alonso Duralde

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism. — Annie Lennox