Quotes About Development

Are things going the way we both want them? Are things going the way that suits us individually? What are the values we hold, separately and together? How is our relationship supporting those values? Is one of us developing at the expense of the other? Can we look at difficulties from the other's point of view? Would we both be willing to make behavioural changes if those are needed?

There are no small parts, only small actors.' You have a big part and you just need to let yourself grow into it.

Winnicott's understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud's. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something dramatically negative, frightening, and noxious (e.g., precocious sexual stimulation); it is most fundamentally the failure to sustain something positive—the necessary conditions for healthy psychic development. Thus

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The

Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys

The renunciation of the child's sexual ambitions and dyadic unity with the mother is established through the father's presence, which stands for the regulating, organizing, symbolizing functions of language itself. Lacan

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

It is an important part of our life's experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.