Quotes About Development

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

All our lives, we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, being able to say good-bye to people we love.

It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one good way to grow. It's not easy to keep learning, But I know that this is so: When you've tried and learned You're bigger than you were a day ago. It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one way to grow.

A berry ripens in its own good time . . . and so does a child's readiness. Just as the one needs water and sunlight, the other needs the patient reassurance of loving adults who can trust children to grow according to their own timetables.

There's mystery in raising children: As our children grow and develop their unique talents, we can't control every aspect of their lives. For example, we can offer children music lessons and do all we can to encourage them to appreciate music, but if making music isn't their way of expressing themselves, we have to trust they'll find their own ways.

Watching a baby grow with our help tells us other things we like to feel about ourselves: that we are competent and loving.

When you're a parent you have a new chance to grow.

Parenthood is not learned: Parenthood is an inner change.

Letting our children go" is a lifelong process for parents, one that we wrestle with again and again, and each parent has to wrestle with it in his or her own way.

schooling meant that schools had "become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

People say times have changed. That just means they've got more discreet.

Regardless of where I am or what I am working on, there is always one thought on my mind: Who shows promise? Who shows up every morning? Who solves problems? Who thinks of something clever? These people are my future if I can involve and develop them.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

For every state, from the smallest to the largest, the principle of enlargement is the fundamental law of life.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual partner for more than a short time. Something inside them will not tolerate happiness. The better it gets, the more they have to destroy it.

The difference between the ages of ten and fourteen is immense.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place