Quotes About Development

To gain, we must first lose.

Underpinning it all was the love for the characters, creation and progression.

We are quite primitive still, are we not?

Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection points that might have taken a different turn.

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Why do you have sons, if not to grow up and test their boldness? Boldness cannot be laid like bones in the sack. It must be driven and again shown on the light, each time stronger than the last. You're mistaken if you think you can keep it, until you need it. It's like everything else, that gives you strength. If you neglect it, your sack will be empty, when you need it the most.

An earlier start can break their spirit; go later and their spirit has already gotten hardened in the wrong place

But honor, Thomas conceded wryly, born late blooms strong.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Everybody changes, Ellie figured. Everybody starts out as one kind of person and ends up being somebody else. … Even when you don't notice it, life is rearranging you.

Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid, We have built a tower of stone high into the sky, We have built a city of towers.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Learning is never failure.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you.

The biblical text should be studied in the context of the development of its story and not just mined for statements isolated from the events they portray.

On the other hand, preunderstandings are beliefs or perceptions that are fluid in that they are open to adjustment, refinement, or development by further interaction and reflection.