Quotes About Development

The melancholy fact is that the churches no longer influence the development of national character. People go to church mainly because of an impulse to participate in a service of worship, not because of any spiritual guidance they expect from the clergyman.

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as fat as they can be improved.

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.

You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that.

What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.

Every chemical compound, according to Engels, comes into existence only at a certain time in the development of the universe when the conditions are appropriate for it; and when it does come into existence it manifests this by entering into its characteristic relations. Neither carbon compounds or proteins are ideal forms, but are themselves witnesses of the conditions on a cooling planet. It is here that occurs his celebrated remark that life is the mode of existence of proteins.

there have been credible reports that researchers have already developed a self-aware computer in secrecy.

Today is the slowest rate of technological change you'll ever experience for the rest of your life." - Shelley Palmer

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

The role of intellectual development is primary in evangelical Christianity, but you might not know that from a cursory look at the church today.

As our Savior has said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37). To do this, we cannot neglect the soulful development of a Christian mind.

La gente no entiende que se necesitan muchos hombres para crear a un hombre bueno.

People just don't understand how many men it takes to build one good man. Next time you're in Manhattan and you see one of those mighty skyscrapers going up, pay attention to how many men are engaged in the enterprise. It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

I use the term periconscious to suggest that higher forms of consciousness had to emerge evolutionarily from specific types of preconscious neural processes, and that the primitive affective systems that will be described in this text may have been the major gateways for the development of cognitively resolved awareness of values that appear to exist in the world.

For quite a while, the development of psychiatric medicine has been stifled by man-made concepts, gleaned from complex symptomatology rather than from brain research.

You need not regret lost years if you have learned great things.

If you don't like who you are, then change who you are!" Kira told him. "If we can keep from being caught you'll have a chance to learn how to do other things.

We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.

When you consistently make better choices you create better habits. These better habits produce better character. When you have better character, you add more value to the world. When you become more valuable, you attract bigger and better opportunities. This allows you to make more of a contribution in your life. This in turn leads to bigger and better results.

You Need Goals that Stretch You