Quotes About Development

By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.

An accomplished pastor once explained to Eugene how he was trying to "reproduce himself in the younger generation." Eugene's response: "Isn't one of you enough? Why don't you nurture what is uniquely them?

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop. [ New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

L'influence de cette religion paralyse le développement social de ses fidèles Il n'existe pas de plus puissante force rétrograde dans le monde.Si la Chrétienté n'était protégée par les bras puissants de la Science, la civilisation de l'Europe moderne pourrait tomber, comme tomba celle de la Rome antique.

Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part

He had planned so much for Julia, had watched her grow from a scarcely separable entity, seen her nature unfold, the very beginning of traits and characteristics make their quaint showing. It was hardly believable that they would never develop, that all that potential sweetness should dry up at its fount and turn to dust. Hardly believable and hardly bearable.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

First we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.

Success is never final.

Few facts are so encouraging to the student of human development as the desire, which most men and all communities manifest at all times, to associate with their actions at least the appearance of moral right.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb—There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

For every reason therefore we must develop the storm troop or Commando idea. I have asked for five thousand parachutists, and we must also have at least ten thousand of these small "bands of brothers" who will be capable of lightning action.

if it was not passed, the docks, which already have become obsolescent, will have to be allowed to obsolesce into obsoleteness.

In working with Allies it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.