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Quotes About Development

Not a single sport develops our muscular strength and bodies as well as kettlebell athletics," reported Russian magazine Hercules in 1913.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.
~ Pearl Buck
I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The more discrete the skills are, the easier it is to develop operational definitions of them. When the skills can be operationalized, it's easier to create interventions to improve those operations. For
~ Unknown
at best, young children who are drilled on letters and numbers show no later advantage compared with those in play-based programs. In some cases, by high school their outcomes are worse. That inappropriately early pressure seems to destroy the interest and joy in learning that would naturally develop a few years later.
~ Peggy Orenstein
A headline-grabbing 2005 British study revealed that girls aged six to twelve enjoyed torturing, mutilating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they liked dressing them up for the prom. What
~ Peggy Orenstein
At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?
~ Peggy Orenstein
We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and fears of our daily life.
~ Pema Chodron
if we understand how growth happens and are inspired to pursue the path of awakening, we develop an appetite for the things that challenge us. We become increasingly drawn to the places where learning and deepening can happen.
~ Pema Chodron
Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.
~ Pema Chodron
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
~ Elie Wiesel
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
~ Thomas Aquinas
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
~ Larry Wall
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
~ Maria Montessori
One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.
~ Mas Oyama
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
~ Florence Nightingale
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.
~ Anderson Silva
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
~ Emily Carr
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
~ Lukas Foss
You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.
~ Unknown
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
~ John Paul II