Quotes About Development

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Change must be measured from a known base line.