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Quotes About Development

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
~ Chance The Rapper
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
~ Maria Montessori
See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
~ Casey Stengel
Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.
~ Lorrie Fair
You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.
~ Tony Romo
But everyone has a chance. Every big guy started off small.
~ John Gokongwei
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~ David Elkind
Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.
~ Jim Rohn
My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
~ Carly Fiorina
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.
~ Fred Brooks
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
~ Ayelet Waldman
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
~ Walt Disney
Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.
~ Stephen D. Krashen
Our best chance for happiness is education.
~ Mark Van Doren
Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do
~ Hillary Clinton
A question that has intrigued me for years is this: how can we start exactly where we are, with all our entanglements, and still develop unconditional acceptance
~ Pema Chodron
If we always stay in that narrow zone, how are we going to grow?
~ Pema Chodron
So now we are young still but a better sort of young.
~ Penelope Lively
time marches on, as children grow and develop and mutate, as adults accommodate or fester or rejoice.
~ Penelope Lively
But you are not sure it is possible to outgrow the things that have built you from nothing into something.
~ Unknown
João Evangelista estava farto de subdesenvolvimento.
~ Unknown
Everything grows out of the soil of contingent circumstance. Convenience, rather than the shibboleth of progress of evolution, is the agent of change. Error and misjudgment therefore play a large part in what we are pleased to call the 'development' of institutions. A body of uses and misuses then takes on the carapace of custom and becomes part of a tradition.
~ Peter Ackroyd