Quotes About Development

There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.

Anyone can rise if they have enough yeast.

He's going to go totally Librarian-poo.

It meant that Crowley had been allowed to develop Manchester, while Aziraphale had a free hand in the whole of Shropshire. Crowley took Glasgow, Aziraphale had Edinburgh (neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes,* but both reported it as a success).

there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre

They saw that the perfect world is a journey, not a place.

His-his-history!' he cried. 'I declare the Stone Age at an end. History will start from tomorrow!

Don't you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

I keep turning around to feel the embrace of these sweeping valley. First thoughts: Never have I felt so safe. No development. No distractions. Nothing to break my heart. I was not prepared for this uninterrupted peace.

Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.

As the pot slowly fills up with water, drop by drop, so does the fool, little by little, become evil.

At the end of the day, my leadership effectiveness is measured not by what I am able to accomplish, but by what those whom I lead are able to accomplish.

This isn't about perfection. Far from it. It's simply about getting better — better in systematic and concrete ways that improve the company's bottom line.

She lives in the presence of wonder at their thoughts and abilities and therefore provides space for them to create and grow and for her to create and grow in response to them.

my leadership effectiveness is measured not by what I am able to accomplish but by what those whom I lead are able to accomplish.

You can multiply your possibilities, enlarge and increase them... When one discovers one's psychic being within, at the same time there develop and manifest, quite unexpectedly, things one could not do at all before and which one didn't think were in one's nature. MCW, vol. 9, Questions and Answers 1957-1958, p.396

Be only a burning fire for progress, take whatever comes to you as an aid to your progress and immediately make whatever progress is required. Works Of The Mother, vol.12, p.33

Denn man hört nie auf erziehungsbedürftig zu sein; ich gehe noch jetzt in die Schule und lerne von Leuten, die meine Enkel sein könnten.

Travellers do not produce railways, but conversely, railways produce travellers.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

In short, he was one of those early, daring manipulators who later were to seize upon other and even larger phases of American natural development for their own aggrandizement.