Quotes About Development

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

Each nature requires its own education. The training which will help the man of undue self-esteem, will hurt the man who has too little. A chief end of life is to grow aright; and no man can grow aright.

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

Luther's views were not a medieval relic but a development of it. Even more disturbing, it was not incidental to his theology, a lamentable prejudice taken over from contemporary attitudes. Rather, it was integral to his thought; his insistence that the true Christians—that is, the evangelicals—had become the chosen people and had displaced the Jews would become fundamental to Protestant identity.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

Today Rosa's little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved.

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

The instruction of inexperienced young men is one of life's unrivaled pleasures.

The books he had read, the people he had met, and the ideas in which he had steeped himself for three years had transformed him.

Our earliest considerable specimens of the growth of modern languages come from the time of his grandsons, two of whom when combining against a third exchanged oaths of fidelity in languages which each other's troops could understand and which show us early stages in the development of the French and German languages.

It has been said that the medieval universities "affected the progress and intellectual development of Europe more powerfully, or perhaps rather more exclusively, than any schools in all likelihood will ever do again.

Human activity and hence history may be conveniently subdivided under five captions: political, economic, social, religious, and cultural.

Madison was also developing another idea: that the absence of clashing ideas and competing interests leads to overreaching and corruption.

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

If he has none to give him pain, he has none to give him pleasure. She never expressed doubts about the way she raised children..she continued to believe mothers influence was paramount in her children's future development, she also understood no one was perfect.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

We won't develop new responses until we develop new thoughts. That's why renewing our minds with new thoughts is crucial.

The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.

My life certainly didn't change overnight. I experienced a waiting period, a time of growth, development, and perseverance as God prepared me. Lessons on patience, trust, surrender, and learning to take hold all preceded my stepping out. But even in this seemingly unimportant time of pruning and trials, God was preparing me for the next step.

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

Relationships don't come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.