Quotes About Development

Rahul identifies the five builders who, along with the V.P. Naik government, ruined Bombay: the Makers, the Rahejas, the Dalamals, the Mittals, and the Tulsianis. Their names are immortalized on the office complexes they constructed at Nariman Point, which, in the original development plan, had been designated for educational and mixed-use residential housing.

Taoism has fostered both material and mental progress, both technological development and awareness of the potential dangers of that very development, always striving to encourage balance between the material and spiritual sides of humankind.

A evolução do Homem passa, necessariamente, pela busca do conhecimento.

Motivation is the result, not the instigator of change. Action comes first. Then, the action becomes a habit. From the habit, you see results or get rewards, which eventually lead to motivation.

Children have a right to be children. They have a right to spend their early years being playful, spontaneous, and irresponsible.

In fact, not only have a good many formerly abused children grown into nonabusing adults, but a number of these parents have great difficulty with even modest, nonphysical methods of disciplining their children. In rebellion against the pain of their own childhoods, these parents shy away both from setting limits and from enforcing them. This, too, can have a negative impact on a child's development, because children need the security of boundaries.

When a parent forces parental responsibilities on a child, family roles become indistinct, distorted, or reversed. A child who is compelled to become his own parent, or even become a parent to his own parent, has no one to emulate, learn from, and look up to. Without a parental role model at this critical state of emotional development, a child's personal identity is set adrift in a hostile sea of confusion.

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

As Maya Angelou said, 'I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I'm mostly faking it, but I'm moving forward. That's what we're supposed to do, right? Nothing stays the same.

He loved his entire family, including his mother, but growing up with them had taught him that not every intimate detail needed to be shared. He hadn't wanted to know that his parents had enjoyed a new sexual technique the night before or that his sisters had their periods. He hadn't wanted to talk about his own sexual development or, back when he'd been a teenager, have his mother ask him, over breakfast, if he'd masturbated yet that day.

Every failure brings us closer to our ultimate success.

I'm saying you're comfortable. That makes it hard to do the work that change requires.

While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a relationship, any single conversation can.

I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

And about the staggering prediction made recently by the World Health Organization that, barring improbably rapid progress in the development of a vaccine, there will be ten to twenty times more AIDS cases in the next five years than there were in the last five, it is assumed that most of these millions will be Africans.

Difficulty is a miracle in its first stage. —Amish proverb

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children." —Mignon McLaughlin

When we adopt a professional identity, we are encouraged to think of it as our entire identity and we have little time or energy to explore and develop other aspects of our personalities. The career culture places little premium on the quality of roundedness, but we cannot be whole people without being rounded.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.

In 100 years, we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.

After enlightenment, the laundry.