Quotes About Development

So we must acknowledge that knowledge is ever expanding, ever changing, and so we must also change with it

Our children are growing up very well." Santi laughed softly. "And I said you'd never make a good father

It takes a while. Slowly, almost imperceptibly over

Life is a work is progress.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

I don't think it's a matter of ready-I mean, not in an all-the-way sense. You're never completely ready-you just get to the point where you're ready enough.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed—" "—things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

the Handbook of Economics series (which has volumes on agriculture, development, education, labor, and many other sectors), the Annual Review of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives are all good sources for reviews

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy of mediocrity that denies children the chance to develop a love of reading and become good readers. It is a pattern that involves our system, parents, teachers, and sometimes even librarians.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

The only way back is the way forward.

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.

Were you always such a snake, the child asked, or did you grow into what you are?

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

Not everything that happens during the day is an omen portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

I'm a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin' babies.

ameliorated

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.