Quotes About Development

Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another's lives.

fantasy and imagination, which are so natural for the young child, form a better foundation for later creative thinking than early learning. Creative thinking is more needed in our highly technological world than four-year-olds who can push the buttons on the computer.

Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact, most writers continue to develop ideas and themes from one book to the next in what is essentially a lifelong evolution and revision.

One of the most amazing recent developments is that a number of aggressive atheists are beginning to see the horror of a totally de-Christianized culture and are starting to acknowledge, without themselves claiming to have become believers, that Christianity contributed some great value to our lives and many of the progressive ideals came to birth only as a result of Christianity.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

We change, whether we like it or not

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.