Quotes About Development

One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

The Child is father of the Man...

A lot of small potatoes makes a big load.

The first step binds one to the second.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Nije to dobrota što nas nagoni da gradimo puteve, nego potreba i želja za širenjem korisnih veza i uticaja, a to mnogi smatraju opet našom ''zlo?om''.

Today I am devoted to addressing all the little things about me and in my life that I have not mastered!