Quotes About Development

And so the species is announcing, "We evolve by the principle of…well, evolution." But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle. The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process—but a process over which the species has control—has not confused "process" with "principle," but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.

2.6 billion people live without toilets, and 1.6 billion without electricity. How is this possible?, you might ask. And that is a very good question.

You are right. Evolution is "survival of the fittest." That is the process. Yet do not confuse "process" and "principle.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.

one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.

I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it

During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $1 million US. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.

if we don't act , we're just standing still. and the act of standing still is the same as moving backwards when everyone else is in motion all around us, around the world

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this planet.

School is not only a place to learn, but a place to learn how to learn.

As the saying goes, we spend the first years of children's lives teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

By 2017, Star Wars had barely made it past the concept stage.

We will have very smart cities by the year 2020…

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

My brain pupated into a butterfly." I

FIRST PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US, MEN AND WOMEN, IS NOT TO LEARN BUT TO UNLEARN.

I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured

You could summarize Jesus' leadership strategy as follows: I'll do it; you watch. We'll do it together. You do it; I'll watch. You do it!

If the root issues are not faced and resolved, growth will be stymied.