Quotes About Development

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

Stop building tomorrow's roads on today's grounds.

They both started out with the basic ingredients, but it took a special touch for them to spread their wings and fly.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.

The progress of her aging seemed to occur in fits and starts, not so much a matter of physical growth as a deepening self-possession, as if she were coming into ownership of her life.

His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.

as the years had passed

The secret to living a fulfilling life is to never stop learning and growing. Keep pushing yourself to new heights.

By February 1930 Henry Hardenbergh's great building, one of the architectural wonders of Manhattan, had been leveled. Its two-acre site, where the parents of the Astor cousins once dwelt in their brownstone mansions, was cleared for another architectural milestone, the 102-story Empire State Building.

The population of Manhattan jumped from about twenty-five thousand in 1780, when Astor arrived there, to about five hundred thousand in 1848, the year he died.

In 1828 Broadway, the city's spinal thoroughfare, ended at Tenth Street, according to the grid plan for the city streets. Forty years later Broadway extended northward to 155th Street and beyond that into the Bronx. Only the three rivers that enclosed Manhattan could limit its horizontal growth.

No experience is wasted.

Take what you have and just make it the best it could be.

Progress is hard on history.

This idea of growth is important for understanding Irenaeus. According to him, Adam and Eve were not created as perfect in the sense that they were all that God called them to be, but were rather created so that they could develop and grow in that image of God, which is the Son.

No one becomes depraved in a moment.

How much you improve is up to you.

Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal.