Quotes About Development

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Children who fail to learn basic love and trust at home are handicapped later in mastering the assertiveness, initiative, and autonomy that are the foundation of successful adulthood.

The laws of adult development are nowhere near as well known as the laws of the solar system or even the laws of child development, which were only discovered in the last century.

It is reasonable to ask whether this book is necessary. Over its seventy-five years of existence, the Study of Adult Development has so far produced 9 books and 150 articles, including quite a number of my own (see Appendix F). Why

It is obvious that there is no uniform pattern of government in Acts. The form of leadership was an historical development in which the apostles, elders, and the congregation shared.

A widely prevailing view is that justification is the term designating the beginning of the Christian life, while sanctification designates development of that life through the internal work of the Spirit.35 This, however, is an oversimplification of the New Testament teaching, and it obscures an important truth. In fact, the idea of sanctification is soteriological before it is a moral concept.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

In our springtime every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

We have come a long way from sod huts and muddy boots to an economy that produces billions of dollars' worth of soap. And we may be learning what Mark Twain meant: "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone.

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

In some sense, the military is the most modern part of a developing country.

Rome wasn't planned, and neither did it just happen.

the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Today, on a per capita basis, Israel far leads the world in research and technological creativity.

A soul, if such a thing exists at all, doesn't filter into you at birth through your mother's umbilical cord. Souls come from the people who shape you as you grow.

This is life," Luther said. "We change, we alter ourselves, we grow or shrink. It's part of the human condition.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.