Quotes About Development

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

It's not a bug — it's an undocumented feature.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

A strong will can accomplish anything... There is no such thing as inspiration, and very little of genius. Dig, blooming under opportunity, results in what appears to be the former, and certainly makes possible the development of what original modicum of the latter one may possess. Dig is a wonderful thing, and will move more mountains than faith ever dreamed of. In fact, Dig should be the legitimate father of all self-faith.

You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Reflect first upon that great law of our nature, that exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief... It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a piece of metal.

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience.  But growth demanded disobedience.

La curiosidad, hija del crecimiento, era la que le impulsaba. la necesidad de aprender, de vivir, de hacer algo que le proporcionara experiencia.