Quotes About Development

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.