Quotes About Development

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

The ovaries know no bounds. They are the primary source of sex hormones that sexualize the body. Before the ovaries are able to serve up a viable egg, they are quite adept at dishing out the sex hormones. The sex hormones cause pubic hair to grow, fat to gather on the breasts and hips, the pelvis to widen, and eventually menstrual blood to flow.

estrogen spurs the growth of many cell types—mammal, insect, grain.

As youth flowers into maturity, the barrier between nerd and herd grows taller and thicker and begins to sprout thorns.

In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura , or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

We learn writing by doing it.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.

it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment.

The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.