Quotes About Development

But if we stop learning stuff," I protested, "we'll get dumber." "In your case," Andrea told me, "that would be impossible.

the year 1790. Computers haven't been invented yet.

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There's been a sea change in our ability to understand and treat Down syndrome," said Mobley. "There's just been an explosion of information. As recently as the year 2000, no drug company would possibly have thought about developing therapies for Down syndrome. I am now in contact with no less than four companies that are pursuing treatments.

Kittens are born blind and rely on their mother's milk for the first week. They grow quickly and are soon walking and play-fighting with their brothers and sisters as they learn how to be a cat.

The most important thing to remember, the guiding principle, is to try to keep your son's self-esteem

Give boys permission to have an internal life, approval for the full range of human emotions, and help in developing an emotional vocabulary so that they may better understand themselves and communicate more effectively with others.

Recognize and accept the high activity level of boys and give them safe boy places to express it.

Newborn boys, on average, are actually more emotionally reactive than girls. For example, studies show that baby boys cry more than baby girls when they are frustrated or upset.

On the one hand, we expect them to do things they're developmentally not ready to do, and to be tough 'little men' when they're really just little boys who need goodbye hugs and affection. On the other hand, when they behave in cruel and thoughtless ways, we say, 'Oh, boys will be boys.' We let them off the hook over issues of respect and consideration for others.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

Continual learning is the key to continual living. If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

I am as yet a storm of zero force. Almost a breath.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.