Showing posts with label Robert Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Webb. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

SELF-ESTEEM

'When in comes to the gaining of genuine confidence and genuine self-respect, even the supposed default humans needs a surprising amount of encouragement. What they need, life everyone else, is a) one thing to be good at, and b) one person to notice.
With me that starts at school.
It starts with Mrs Slater.' 
Robert Webb, How Not to be a Boy, p.113. 

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE & READING

'And when it comes to colossal strokes of good fortune...it starts here - it starts with having a family who loves you and someone who inspires you to read. Not because reading makes you smart, but because to involve yourself in a story is to imagine what it's like to be someone else.' 
Robert Webb, How Not to be a Boy, p.67.