Quotes About Development

Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.

stronger ways at different times in our lives. Because of this, we get multiple opportunities for new growth and development, and multiple opportunities to revitalize latent capacities.

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.

El futuro de la educación no está en estandarizar sino en personalizar; no en promover el pensamiento grupal y la «despersonalización», sino en cultivar la verdadera profundidad y el dinamismo de las habilidades humanas de todo tipo. En el futuro, la educación tiene que ser Elemental.

The effect of education on a person's life depends on the sort of school they go to and the teachers they have.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

Conflict is one of the many tools that God will use to help you develop a more Christ-like character.

Conflict is one of the many tools that God will use to help you develop a more Christ-like character. To begin with, he may use conflict to remind you of your weaknesses and to encourage you to depend more on him (2 Cor. 12:7–10).

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school.

Sometimes we have to unlearn things before we can learn the right things.

It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Thousands of repetitions and out of one's true self perfection emerges.

He financed governments, wars, railroads-anything that stood for progress.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

The constraint has shifted out of software development. Here's a sad but repeated story: a development team begins applying XP, dramatically improves quality and productivity, but then is disbanded, its leaders fired and the rest of the team scattered.

A framework with all protected fields would be more immediately usable but harder to evolve later.

The purposes of two constructors with different sets of parameters are not always obvious, but the name of the factory methods can suggest the reason clients might want to create an object each way.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer

Write contracts for software development that fix time, costs, and quality but call for an ongoing negotiation of the precise scope of the system. Reduce risk by signing a sequence of short contracts instead of one long one.