Tim Elmore > Quotes

“You can't steer a parked car.”
― Elmore, Tim

“The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.”
― Tim Elmore, 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid: Leading Your Kids to Succeed in Life

“Many recognize that simply continuing what we’ve done in the past will not get us to our goal. The future will not merely be an extension of the past.”
― Tim Elmore, Marching Off the Map: Inspire Students to Navigate a Brand New World

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, while others build windmills. Chinese Proverb”
― Tim Elmore, Marching Off the Map: Inspire Students to Navigate a Brand New World

“Replace comfort with curiosity. Choose to leave the comfortable to pursue the compelling. Hunt for new horizons to conquer.”
― Tim Elmore, Habitudes for the Journey: The Art of Navigating Transitions

“We’re losing our lives, living vicariously through others as we watch their lives.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Our children need us to be intentional about equipping them to navigate smartphones and social media yet laissez-faire about letting them explore new places, skin their knees, and fail at projects, so they’re not gripped by fear and anxiety as they enter adulthood.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“The paradox of our lives today is that some of the things adults and schools do to get kids admitted into college might just make them less able to thrive once they arrive there.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“With phones beeping and pinging all day long, focus is becoming a lost art.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“When we become controlling, kids feel out of control of their futures.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Our devices are smart, but my question is: Are we producing emotionally smart kids?”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Emotional security is not found in protection from outlandish ideas, but in self-actualization built through personal experience. Ideologies must be engaged, challenged, and debated if empathy and civility are to be recovered.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“In a 2017 global survey by Universum, Generation Z has a keener interest in leadership than the previous three generations.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Believe the best about the young people you lead, and offer direction to them out of wisdom, not fear.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Like rubber bands, we’re only useful when we’re stretched.”
― Tim Elmore, The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace

“A commencement speech Mann gave two months before his death served as a clarion call for students to embrace his worldview: “I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Tim Elmore, Marching Off the Map: Inspire Students to Navigate a Brand New World

“A person (even a teenager) who has a smartphone is exposed to ten thousand messages a day, when you consider posts, ads, TV shows, emails, videos, signs, and conversations in person.10”
― Tim Elmore, The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace

“the irony of social media use is that it is both self-soothing and a source of anxiety. It makes us feel better and worse. We often resort to it when we don’t know what to do with ourselves, yet it frequently becomes a root cause of negative emotions: angst, envy, and the fear of missing out.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“self-interested activity has not led to greater self-esteem.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“A minimalist believes the richest people are not the ones who have the most but those who need the least.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Our expectations and belief are two of the most significant factors in determining the success of the Generation Z students we lead.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“If something is possible, is it always beneficial?”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“In a recent study done with functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers found that the same brain networks light up when you're burned with hot coffee and when someone you love leaves you. That is to say—there is no categorical difference between physical and emotional pain in the brain. The University of Michigan's Ethan Kross, PhD, says, "Heartache and painful breakups are 'more than just metaphors.'"7 If we don't address the pain of our past, we may not have peace in the present.”
― Tim Elmore, Habitudes for the Journey: The Art of Navigating Transitions

“When was the last time you did something for the first time? Good question. John Dewey put it this way: “Education is not a preparation for life. It is life itself.”
― Tim Elmore, The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace

“Nearly all Americans (98 percent) have at least one concern regarding today’s youth, among them are the top concerns of: Social media or smartphone addiction (69 percent), Mental health issues (61 percent), School shootings (57 percent), Alcohol/drug abuse (56 percent).”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“But sometimes, the past can hold us back. If our memories are more important than our dreams—we are in trouble. If we prefer to look in the rearview mirror instead of the windshield, we'll get stuck—and maybe wreck. Holding on to the comfort of our past can keep us from grabbing the adventure that lies in our future.”
― Tim Elmore, Habitudes for the Journey: The Art of Navigating Transitions

“Just as we must not get too comfortable sitting at the tollbooth, we cannot get comfortable with dirt all over us. We must shake it off and pay the price of the challenge before us. In short, we must be willing to leave what is comfortable to pursue what is compelling. Are you willing?”
― Tim Elmore, Habitudes for the Journey: The Art of Navigating Transitions

“I don’t believe we live in a world full of bad kids. I believe we live a world full of kids who know too much, too soon.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Kids must learn to experience the perks and the price of accountability.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population

“Our world is more educated, more sophisticated, more modernized, and more industrialized than ever before, but in our race to make progress, we often leave one important quality behind: common sense.”
― Tim Elmore, Generation Z Unfiltered: Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population