Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogerswas an American television personality, puppeteer, educator, Presbyterian minister, composer, songwriter, author, and activist. Rogers was most famous for creating, hosting, and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which featured his kind-hearted, gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth20 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.
It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.
When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.
I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen,