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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
Maria Montessori
Good
Space
Half
Sense
Possibility
About
Seems
Freely
Know
Comfort
Offer
Unencumbered
Which
Moving
Room
Us
Agreeable
Floor
Conscious
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori
Speak
Language
Men
Only
No-One
Perfectly
Learn
Anything
Them
Teach
Ever
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!
Maria Montessori
Man
Construction
Nothing
Birth
Indeed
Small
Small Child
Generally
Takes
Period
Powers
Greater
Because
Than
Child
Place
Far
Realized
Speaking
Zero
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori
Life
Will
Complete
Arbitrary
Only
Tends
Thus
Toward
Spontaneous
Arrest
Educational
Imposition
Tasks
Movements
Unfolding
Which
Act
Avoid
Help
Helpful
Necessary
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
Maria Montessori
Life
Speak
Language
Chemistry
Mental
Takes
Merely
Like
Learns
His
Child
Going
Place
Race
Belonging
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
Maria Montessori
Education
Spiritual
Balance
Impossible
Sense
Other
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Moral
Physical
Without
Equilibrium
Source
Any
May
Upright
Move
Depends
Which
Stand
Compared
Position
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
Maria Montessori
Man
Degree
Animals
Mouth
Sense
Organ
Characteristic
Touch
Highest
Highest Degree
Hand
Human
While
Grasp
Functions
Two
It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.
Maria Montessori
Words
Complete
Seven
Minds
Carried
Entirely
Study
Idea
Toward
Between
Ecstatic
Parts
Understand
However
Five
May
Children
Tireless
Interest
Show
Who
Grasp
Away
Speech
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
Maria Montessori
Intelligence
Mind
Will
Every
Type
Our
Possess
Insect
Find
Adult
Unconscious
Unconscious Mind
Call
Does
Inferior
Child
Being
Mean
Full
Now
Conscious
Conscious Mind
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
Maria Montessori
Man
Woman
Sentiment
Honour
Respects
Morality
Always
Yielded
Human
Custodian
Palm
If you're too much in control, you feel too secure in your shoes, and where's the emotion to keep going in life? To keep that spark going, you have to feel like an outsider.
Mariacarla Boscono
Life
You
Too Much
Shoes
Control
Too
Secure
Emotion
Outsider
Feel
Like
Going
Spark
Much
Your
Keep
Keep Going
I'm never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!
Mariacarla Boscono
Success
Key
Nervous
Think
Never
Around
Real
Anyone
Which
I really believe that switching products is important, especially for skin. I'm switching from day to day. If I'm tired, if my skin is dry, if I have a pimple, if my hair has been overworked, I will do something different.
Mariacarla Boscono
Day
Tired
Will
Hair
Important
Skin
Believe
Has-Been
Something
Day-To-Day
Dry
Pimple
Been
Different
Really
Products
Switching
Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.
Mariacarla Boscono
Child
Unfortunately
Who
Sleep
One day, when this modeling thing is over for me and I don't enjoy it anymore, I'm just gonna be gone! You know? I'm not here for fame or money. I'm not going to stick around and pretend everything is cool if I'm over it. When it's done, I'm out. Ciao.
Mariacarla Boscono
Day
Me
You
Money
Gone
Enjoy
Everything
One Day
Out
Pretend
Over
Over It
Know
Stick
Around
Fame
Modeling
Done
Going
Just
Anymore
Gonna
Cool
Thing
Here
I eat like a child! Oh my God. It's terrible. My child eats way healthier than me! She loves the veggies. She doesn't like packaged sweets.
Mariacarla Boscono
God
Me
Way
Eat
Eats
Like
She
Terrible
Healthier
Than
Child
Oh
Oh My God
Loves
Packaged
Sweets
Modeling now is more about who I am rather than becoming someone else. I'm more brazen with what I do. I feel very comfortable in my shoes. I pick and choose what I want.
Mariacarla Boscono
Shoes
Else
About
Someone
Rather
More
Pick
Pick And Choose
Feel
Comfortable
Becoming
Am
Very
Than
Modeling
Brazen
Want
Choose
Who
Now
People like me, like Karen Elson and Soo Joo, we're a very specific woman with a very specific look. I think that's also why we last longer. There's no one else like us.
Mariacarla Boscono
Me
Woman
People
Think
Else
No-One
Longer
Like
Look
Also
Very
Us
Why
Specific
Last
I only want to be myself.
Mariacarla Boscono
Myself
Only
Want
When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!
Mariacarla Boscono
Woman
Age
Style
Proper
Italian
Modern
Modern Age
My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.
Mariacarla Boscono
Glasses
Way
Rules
Collection
Wear
No Rules
Bourgeois
She
Always
Hippie
Mixing
Lot
Huge
Very
Mum
Specific
When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
Mario Balotelli
Lose
Temper
Something
Because
Want
Decide
I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.
Mario Balotelli
Time
Good
Three
First
Feeling
Lasted
Too
Months
Some
Admit
Only
Attention
Like
Know
Liked
Became
Fame
Being
Realised
Centre
Then
Really
Player
Players
I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
Mario Balotelli
Right Person
Become
Though
Charge
Would
Would-Be
Like
Because
Boy
Ready
Person
Dad
Right
I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
Mario Balotelli
Journalists
Like
Talk
Them
Ever
Hardly
I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
Mario Balotelli
Try
Responsibility
Know
Model
Role
Role Model
Children
Fulfill
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