Quotes About Development

My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings.

Even if people change on the path from childhood to adulthood, there is still a core of personality that remains intact.

hace un par de años.

You'll understand when you're older, Orla, that "givin' a hard time" to a young person is all to a purpose. With every word you speak, every gesture, every impulse you give in to without reflection, you're building your character - and at the end of your life, your character is all you have to show for yourself.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

and 1866, Pissarro acknowledged his influences from Melbye and Corot, whom he listed

Si vamos a hacer algo vale la pena comenzar a hacerlo aunque sea rudimentariamente hasta que aprendamos a hacerlo bien, pero empezar a hacerlo ya mismo con lo que tenemos hoy

consejos se convierten en reproches, sus reproches en críticas y sus críticas en vacas que no te dejan salir adelante.

economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.

Crop rotation and contour plowing require no additional capital equipment and would contribute significantly to productivity. By raising grain storage bins a few inches above ground, a large amount of grain spoilage could be avoided. Although such changes may sound trivial to people of advanced nations, the resulting gains in productivity might mean the difference between subsistence and starvation in some poverty-ridden nations.

To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

Tener secretos. Otra forma de crecer.

A curator's job does not involve wizardry, but requires a wealth of experience and knowledge, responsibility, and a good overview of artistic developments. But if we are lucky, we curators still manage to enchant visitors with the results. - René Block

Ever since the empirical mathematics of the pre-Hellenic world was developed, the attitude has, upon occasion, been maintained that mathematics is a branch either of empirical science of of transcendental philosophy. In either case mathematics is not free to develop as it will, but is bound by certain restrictions: by conceptions derived either a posteriori from natural science, or assumed to be imposed a priori by an absolutistic philosophy.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life.

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

However, we must not forget that it will be some twenty years before the ordinary run of people begin to think the thoughts of the educated person of today.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

For better to come, good must stand aside.