Ross Greene Quotes & Sayings

To nourish your soul, see the beauty of nature and feel the love. — Debasish Mridha

Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication. — Avijeet Das

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons. — Ross W. Greene

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me. — Rebecca Mader

The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion. — Ross W. Greene

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging. — Ross W. Greene

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases. — Henry A. Kissinger

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair

When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple. — Jennifer Phang

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out. — Margaret Weis

Someone once told me that the ' ... Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster. — Britney Spears

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his. — Ross W. Greene

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

By the time a little girl has become a young woman she has learned how dangerous a thing it is to dream. — Meg Howrey

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. — Ross Macdonald

But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can. — Ross W. Greene

An explosive outburst - like other forms of maladaptive behavior - occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively. — Ross W. Greene

A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help. — Ross W. Greene

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it. — Keira Knightley

If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance. — Ross W. Greene

There is a missionary spirit - a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others. — Carlos E. Asay

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't. — Ross W. Greene