Quotes About Development

Lenin] wonders pugnaciously, however, whether a people 'influenced by the hopelessness of its situation' could be blamed for 'fling[ing] itself into a struggle that would offer it at least some chance of securing conditions for the further development of civilisation that were somewhat unusual'.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

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

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

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

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

Rotten wood cannot be carved

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

or incompleteness, either in the physical or in the emotional personality of a man, he is not capable of invoking and directing thereafter the efficient play of his emotional and intellectual abilities.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

He summarizes his approach to change in this simple phrase (inspired by Aristotle's "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."): "We are what we practice and we're always practicing something. Thus, to make changes we need to practice something new and different.

mental practice alone produced about two thirds of the benefits of actual physical practice

When Blakely and her brother were growing up, her father would ask them a question every week at the dinner table: "What did you guys fail at this week?" "If we had nothing to tell him, he'd be disappointed," Blakely said. "The logic seems counterintuitive, but it worked beautifully. He knew that many people become paralyzed by the fear of failure.

Relationships don't deepen naturally. In the absence of action, they will stall.

Buckingham has a fine series of books on making the most of your strengths rather than obsessing about your weaknesses.)

You can't count on these milestones to occur naturally. To motivate change, you've got to plan for them.

British Medical Journal asked its readers to vote on the most important medical milestone that had occurred since 1840, when the BMJ was first published. Third place went to anesthesia, second place to antibiotics. The winner was one you might not have expected: the "sanitary revolution," encompassing sewage disposal and methods for securing clean water. Much of the world, though, is still waiting for that revolution to come.

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled.

Big changes can start with very small steps. Small changes tend to snowball. But this is not the same as saying that change is easy.

Self-understanding comes slowly. One of the few ways to accelerate it—to experience more crystallizing moments—is to stretch for insight.