Quotes About Development

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Time is the greatest innovator.

On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

A finished person is a boring person.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

To try to be better is to be better.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.