Quotes About Development

Everything changes with time's passage. Only change itself is constant.

You are a girl becoming a woman, but you are not there yet. You will get there more quickly and smoothly if you question your choices before acting on them.

We begin talking about other things—about our sessions on the practice field and how far Ronden thinks I have progressed, and how far I know I still have to go, and finally about the Seers and how good they have been trying to help us with Harrow.

It is capitalism that sees production as potentially infinite, and socialism that sets it in the context of moral and aesthetic values. Or as Marx himself puts it in the first volume of Capital, "under a form appropriate to the full development of the human race.

o socialismo exige uma expansão das forças produtivas, mas a tarefa de expandi-las cabe não ao socialismo em si, mas ao capitalismo

apenas o capitalismo é capaz de desenvolver as forças produtivas até o ponto em que, sob uma administração política diferente, o excedente por elas gerado possa ser usado para prover o bastante para todos. Para ter o socialismo, primeiro é preciso ter capitalismo...

Marx chega a afirmar que nenhuma classe social nova assume até que as forças produtivas tenham sido desenvolvidas tanto quanto possível pela classe anterior

Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.

It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.

Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

Teppic hadn't been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff.

There's no educating a smart boy.

In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself, said Detritus, awe and wonder in his voice. Truly, this a land of opportunity.