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Quotes About Development

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
~ W. H. Auden
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The successful writers continue to learn and grow in their craft—and also to grow their audience or tribe or platform.
~ Unknown
When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers.
~ W.B. Yeats
No-one will dispute the effectiveness of a straight left or a right hook to the jaw or body, but unfortunately it takes months of practice to develop a good punch.
~ Unknown
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
~ W.H. Auden
Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear
~ W.H. Auden
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full strength of Collective Man.
~ W.H. Auden
The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.
~ Aron Nimzowitsch
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
~ Howard Fast
You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.
~ Al Murray
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...
~ Amy Bloom
Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.
~ Luciano Pavarotti
Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.
~ Angela Lansbury
I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.
~ Ry Cooder
We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
~ Ed Rendell
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
~ Zoe Saldana
From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.
~ Ryan Miller
You can make startling changes you can't even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.
~ Jim Rohn
If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
~ Melinda Gates
Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand
~ Michael Hyatt
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
~ Ned Beauman