Quotes About Development

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By "developing" the planet, we have been reducing Earth to a new type of barrenness.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

Mentoring at its very core is a learning relationship, and the phases I discuss and explore in this book are structures and processes that contribute to learning.

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Even though it is not pictured in the Death card, our snake-wrapped Orphic egg—the latent seed of life that we first saw in the Magus card, whose elements were married in the Lovers, and which then was fertilized by the Hermit—is now entering the last stage of development before hatching into new life.

Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.