Quotes About Development

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Father said conflict develops the character

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

The child is the father of man.

Either things grow and change or they die.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.