John Carpenter

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

American Director

Joss Stone

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

English Musician

Karan Patel

I have had my share of choices and temptations, too; I would not lie about that. And I would also like to confess that had it not been for my mother, I would probably have never been able to make the right decisions during those formative years of my life.

Indian Actor

Steve Albini

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

American Musician

Gretchen Carlson

I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the world of music, where I spent my formative years, we were judged solely on our talent, and gender wasn't a factor.

American Journalist

Laura van den Berg

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.

American Writer

Steven Crowder

Who'd have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future relationships?

Canadian Actor

Sara Bareilles

Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.

English Politician

Viggo Mortensen

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

American Actor

Focuses on someone's contribution in developing others' characteristics or paths.

Shaping Influence

Refers to a less obvious but significant influence on development or decisions.

Subtle Impact

Describes a period of time when foundational development occurs, usually early in life.

Growth Phase

Implies a time when key skills or traits are acquired and honed.

Developmental Context

Concerns evaluations to guide students' learning, not for final grades.

Educational Tool

Emphasizes ongoing checks on student progress over sole reliance on big tests.

Feedback Process

Used to identify learning strengths and areas needing improvement.

Progress Insight

 shorten wears red leather is a rock star and I'm not and I'm you know a teenager at the time still so in my formative years instead of a proper education I got the best education in rock and roll a person has probably ever had one of my things I've always said is that a proper rock star starts at least one hairstyle

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 weeks that are right in the middle of our prime vacation time are super formative for those bears and some people are coming here from farther afield and they came here for a specific reason I'm gonna see a bear but we all know that when humans and Wildlife come too close together we could find

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 going easy on ourselves when things don't go well, can turn those qualities into greater personal peace and success. And then there's what we can do as caregivers. Perfectionism develops in our formative years, and so young people are more vulnerable. Parents can help their children

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 Can you imagine what this does to the self-esteem and self-confidence of a young girl? The psychological trauma that this inflicts, affecting her personality, her academic performance and every single aspect of growing up during her early formative years?

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 irreplaceable and formative time with my son. Labor and delivery left me feeling absolutely broken. For months, all I remember is the colic, they said. On the inside, I was drowning. Every morning, I asked myself how much longer I could do it.

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 But terrible things are happening, people are experiencing deeply formative and traumatic losses every day. And as part of my job, this weird podcast that I have, I sometimes talk to people about the worst thing that's ever happened to them.

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 because there was always something to learn from the perspectives of others, even when doing so might be difficult. But life at home with my mom was not the only aspect of my journey that has been formative and uncomfortable.

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 After the wasp stings a tarantula, aiming for a crucial bundle of nerves, it lays an egg on the immobilized spider. Once hatched, the wasp’s larva spends its formative days

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 I wanted to bring my journey of self-discovery to a whole new level while at the same time bringing it back to where my formative years took the baseball dugout.

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 world of formative to who we are as human beings and without them we lose something fundamental to who we are

Formative

Helping to shape or develop something.

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Relating to the stage of development or growth.

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Used to describe the tests given to students to identify their needs and abilities.

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