Quotes About Development

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—and God knows we make 'em.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

D'ye mark him, Flask? whispered Stubb; the chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out.

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause

Lord, when shall we be done growing?

His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate.

Working identity is not just who we are. It is also who we are not. Being able to discard possibilities means we are making progress.

Consider how many times we have heard people reproach their organizations by saying, "There is no one there I want to be like." The reinventing process corrects this deficiency, heightening our desire for role models and people we can relate to. These people and groups provide a "safe base" that enables us to take risks with our new selves and a professional community in which we can develop a new sense of belonging.

The artist, though he is not at the root of human affairs, is a necessary and proper ally in their development.

But anyhow, when you take up your pen you do something devilish pleasing: there is a prospect before you. You are going to develop a germ: I don't know what it is, and I promise you I won't call it creation—but possibly a god is creating through you, and at least you are making believe at creation. Anyhow, it is a sense of mastery and of origin, and you know that when you have done, something will be added to the world, and little destroyed.

the absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

The science books are right about potential. It's easier to lose it than to get it back.

Eukaryotes topped that trick with yet another innovation—an elaborately orchestrated breakthrough in cell-division called meiosis.

True to Dr. Sauer's words, 1.4 billion years33 after the new eukaryotic refinements had begun, the first really exotic multicellular beings made their debut beneath the sun.34 One recently discovered fossil clam dates to over 720 million B.C.

This gave the diversity generator the opportunity to upgrade a component critical to the development of global mind, one which had appeared back in Catal Hüyük in more primitive form—the interest group, the subculture, the specialized clique, the gestator of new ways of thinking, new preoccupations, new emotional stances, new techniques, and new beliefs.

it's inevitable that we've got to bring out the question of the tragic mixup in priorities. We are spending all of this money for death and destruction, and not nearly enough money for life and constructive development . . . when the guns of war become a national obsession, social needs inevitably suffer.

In an economic system not rationally planned for human need, but developing fitfully, chaotically out of the profit motive, there seemed to be no way to avoid recurrent booms and slumps.

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

If the universe is created, then there must be reality beyond the universe...The Creator is the source of life and establishes its meaning and purpose....To study the origin and development of the universe is, in a sense, to investigate the basis for any meaning and purpose to life. Cosmology has deep theological and philosophical ramifications.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why

I am not a Criminal, by trade, but over the years I have developed a distinctly criminal nervous system. Some people might call it paranoia, but I have lived long enough to know that there is no such thing as paranoia. Not in the 21st Century. No. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Life should be made as difficult as possible... So that the victims might develop more character