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Quotes About Development

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When
~ Brennan Manning
Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.
~ Brennan Manning
The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.
~ Brennan Manning
testing is an idea generation activity, rather than a plan implementation activity.
~ Bret Pettichord
tudta, hogy egy civilizáció akkor éri el legfejlettebb, utolsó elÅ'tti szakaszát, amikor a káosz a rend álcájában parádézik, és tudta, hogy már elérkeztünk oda.
~ Heller Joseph
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
Luulemme että voimme jarruttaa kehitystä kieltäytymällä näkemästä sitä.
~ Henning Mankell
Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson
~ Henning Mankell
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~ Henri Bergson
Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I am constantly surprised at how I keep taking the gifts God has given me - my health, my intellectual and emotional gifts - and keep using them to impress people, receive affirmation and praise, and compete for rewards, instead of developing them for the glory of God.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The main problem of service is to be the way without being "in the way." And if there are any tools, techniques and skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeds and to clip the branches, that is, to take away the obstacles for real growth and development.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Because life is very small, you can never see it happening. Have you ever seen a tree actually grow? Can you see a child grow? Growth is too gentle, too tender. Life is basically hidden.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
They know enough who know how to learn.
~ Henry Adams
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.
~ Henry David Thoreau
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?
~ Henry David Thoreau
AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR
~ Henry David Thoreau