Quotes About Development

INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.

But one thing, at least, is certain, that no system can be satisfactory, much less successful, which does not provide for the healthy training of the whole being of the child, dividing and distinguishing mental and bodily exercise if it will, but at the same time co-ordinating them in due relations to each other...

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a giant oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Many women are more attractive at fifty than they were at twenty-five; and if their personality has been developed and enriched by the passing years, they may be more charming at sixty than they were at thirty.

I suggested that he should write out the whole affair from beginning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.

The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, for example, a parent ages as much as twenty years.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.