My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
Quotes about formative (16 Quotes)
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
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My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.
One hundred years of students have formative memories of Gilman Hall. What we're trying to make sure of is that another hundred years of students have memories that are just as lasting.
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for 'as he thinketh within himself, so is he.'
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.