Quotes About Development

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

People might not change but their incentives could.

Some day you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me help you to flap your wings.

Some day, you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me try to teach you how to flap your wings.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Hate is the consequence of fear. We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

At the beginning these two things, the real and the imaginative life, are one and the same thing, because the infant at the beginning does not perceive objectively, but lives in a subjective state, being the creator of all. Gradually, in health the infant becomes able to perceive a world that is a not-me world, and to attain this state the infant must be cared for well enough at the time of absolute dependence.

an environment that holds the baby well enough, the baby is able to make personal development according to the inherited tendencies. The result is a continuity of existence that becomes a sense of existing, a sense of self, and eventually results in autonomy.

She was thinking how odd it was that children grew up so quickly and grown-up people remained much the same. It was only yesterday (or so it seemed to Dorcas) that she had carried Simon upstairs in her arms. Now he could run up the stairs much faster than she could. Tomorrow, or soon after, he would have grown too big to play bears—he would not need her anymore.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and children. I don't know what kinds of pressure they're under, but I think it robs the world of 'the older version of Judy or Wendy,' or whomever. It robs the world of the next iteration of them, and I don't think that's right.

The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

With a lot of shows, what you'll see happen is they start off really well, and they're very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show... they become a cliche of the show they once were. That's the whole 'jumping the shark' thing.

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.

I just want to be the best version of me.

I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.