Gerber Quotes & Sayings

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life. — Linda Gerber

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being. — Magda Gerber

Henry Gerber, writing in 1932 under the pseudonym Parisex, responded to an article in The Modern Thinker that condemned homosexuality. "Is not the psychiatrist again putting the cart before the horse in saying that homosexuality is a symptom of the neurotic style of life?" he insisted. "Would it not sound more natural to say that the homosexual is made neurotic because his style of life is beset by thousands of dangers? — George Chauncey

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.-S.W. Straus — Charmaine Gerber

By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal. — Magda Gerber

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. — Michael Gerber

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice. — Michael Gerber

I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whole world. — Bristol Palin

Well I was a Gerber baby, so probably that was my first money. But in cash, I used to do lemonade stands a lot. — Kiernan Shipka

All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time. — Magda Gerber

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant. — Michael Gerber

Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself. — Magda Gerber

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job. — Michael Gerber

Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do. — Magda Gerber

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing. — Gerber Michael E.

Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens — Joseph Gerber

If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything? — Michael Gerber

This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it? — Linda Gerber

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business - you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic! — Michael E. Gerber

Spies and parents never sleep. — Linda Gerber

Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play. — Magda Gerber

I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. — Michael Gerber

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it? — Michael Gerber

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth — Richard Gerber

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision. — Michael Gerber

Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished. — Magda Gerber

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. — Michael Gerber

Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important - the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model, — Michael E. Gerber

When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him a chance to respond. You assume he is competent and involve him in his care and let him, as much as possible, solve his own problems. You give him plenty of physical freedom and you don't push development. — Magda Gerber

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. — Annie Dillard

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object — Magda Gerber

You know, I have to tell you"
I tried to make my voice bright to lighten the moo
"this ring of yours has got to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen."
"I'm insulted." He held his hand up to the moonlight and straightened the monstrosity on his finger. "My dad gave this to me when we moved to Michigan.'To remember the old life' he said. I've never taken it off. I look at it and see California."
"Remind me never to visit California. — Linda Gerber

If a kitten without a collar walks into your life, you have to keep him. Timing is everything. — Daryl Wood Gerber

The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love. — Magda Gerber

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business. — Michael Gerber

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine. — Richie Gerber

Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect. — Magda Gerber

Do less; observe more; enjoy most. — Magda Gerber

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true? — Michael Gerber

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives. — Michael Gerber

Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth. — Richard Gerber

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities. — Michael Gerber

Educarers demonstrate love by showing and teaching respect. — Magda Gerber

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. — Michael Gerber

Observe more, do less.
Do less, enjoy more. — Magda Gerber

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us."
"I know." I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be.
"That's why I had to come."
His eyebrow cocked upward. "And here I thought you came to see me. — Linda Gerber

And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done. — Michael E. Gerber

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. — Michael E. Gerber

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing — Richard Gerber

Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse. — Michael E. Gerber

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of? — Magda Gerber

Do I like living with Daniel's family? No. Would I ever tell him that? No. I know I'm all about honesty and saying what I think, but sometimes people are more important than the truth. — Linda Gerber

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise — Richard Gerber

In later centuries, both Spanish and Italian patriots have claimed him; but in fact the background of this obscure map maker and sea captain is extremely vague. He himself was always quite evasive about his origins, although he claimed to come from Genoa. In Spain he referred to himself as a foreigner (extranjero), but he kept his journals and made marginal notations in his books in Spanish, not Italian; his letters to his brother Bartholome and his son Diego were also written in Spanish, and he wrote Latin in a recognizably Spanish manner. Yet his Spanish was the language of the fourteenth century, and his characteristics seemed to suggest a Catalan background. Furthermore, although he made an elaborate show of his Christian piety, he always kept company with Jews and Muslims. — Jane S. Gerber

Happy Readings Y'all! — Lia Gerber

As I say so often, "Observe and wait." Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying — Magda Gerber

She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell. — Linda Gerber

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it. — Magda Gerber

We all need someone who understands. — Magda Gerber

Sadness, discomfort, frustration
they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? — Magda Gerber

Never use limitations as an excuse for mediocrity. — Linda Gerber

I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead. — Robin Gerber

Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone. — Magda Gerber

Predictability brings about security. — Magda Gerber

A new power is emerging on the world stage born of love not fear — Richard Gerber

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play. — Magda Gerber

The more we do, the busier we are, the less we really pay attention. — Magda Gerber

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them. — Magda Gerber

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication — Michael E. Gerber

Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering — Richard Gerber

Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own project or involved with the other chidren. — Magda Gerber

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. — Michael E. Gerber

I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. — Magda Gerber

Major Karl von Kronig,"' he reads. '"Oberstleutnant Stefan Fenstermacher, Obergefreiter Lutz Gerber, Gefreiter Manfred Hahn, Gefreiter Reiner Brauer, Panzerfunker Gerhard Meister . . ." Bloody hell. No wonder they didn't win the war with names like that. Take them a year and a half to do the roll call. What the hell's "panzerfunker" when it's at home? — Elly Griffiths

A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves. — Michael Gerber

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place."
"And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective."
"If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop. — Linda Gerber

As the systems theorist Fritjof Capra points out, humanity's social, political, economic, and environmental plights are all manifestations of a cultural crisis brought about by adherence to outdated conceptual models ... Under the reductionist paradigm, humans' concept of nature devolved from that of living organism to machine, and the predominant value system came to be based on the domination and control of nature rather than respect for and harmony with the natural world. — Alex Gerber Jr.

What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves. — Magda Gerber

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber

RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than their having to adjust too soon to external schedules and unrealistic expectations. First, we have to let the child develop his own rhythm; and then later he can adjust more into adult life. — Magda Gerber

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready. — Michael E. Gerber

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are. — Magda Gerber

What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals? — Michael Gerber

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time. — Magda Gerber

Systems run the business and people run the systems. — Michael Gerber

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race
what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy. — Magda Gerber

When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart. — Magda Gerber

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on. — Michael E. Gerber

The chakras are specialized energy centers which connect us to the multidimensional universe. The chakras are dimensional portals within the subtle bodies which take in and process energy of higher vibrational nature so that it may be properly assimilated and used to transform the physical body. — Richard Gerber

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are. — Magda Gerber