Quotes About Development

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anaïs Nin

The simple truth is that moving into the Intuition Age is all about what you can know and do with energy and how you can develop effective, expanded sensitivity.

Se Ngunga está em todos nós, que esperamos então para o fazer crescer? Como as árvores, como o massango e o milho, ele crescerá dentro de nós se o regarmos. Não com água do rio, mas com ações. Não com água do rio, mas com a que Uassamba em sonhos oferecia a Ngunga: a ternura.

El motor último del capitalismo no es, por tanto, la sed de ganancia ni ningún otro deseo humano, sino el desarrollo en cuanto entropía negativa. "El desarrollo no es un invento de los seres humanos. Los seres humanos son un invento del desarrollo" [Lyotard "Une fable postmoderne", en Moralités postmodernes pp. 86-87]

We see attractive growth prospects for the safety equipment industry overall, but we believe fall protection is particularly attractive because of the potential for growth due to further development of safety regulations.

Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood often learn to survive by over-using one or two of the 4F Reponses. Fixation in any one 4F response not only limits our ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs our ability to relax into an undefended state. Additionally, it strands us in a narrow, impoverished experience of life.

This is especially good news because what is learned can be unlearned and vice versa.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience. Recovery is enhanced immeasurably by developing this helpful process of introspection. As it becomes more developed, mindfulness can be used to recognize and dis-identify from beliefs and viewpoints that you acquired from your traumatizing family.

1. VERBAL NURTURANCE: Eager participation in multidimensional conversation. Generous amounts of praise and positive feedback. Willingness to entertain all questions. Teaching, reading stories, providing resources for ongoing verbal development

Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Alexis Canell

We believe such a study would also empower, enable, and defend the presence of a strong Judeo-Christian worldview in the ongoing development of our state and national governments and courts.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have impact on our institutions.

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities.

Making mistakes and correcting them builds the bridges to advanced learning.

In the school of life experience, setbacks show us where we need to do better. We can steer clear of similar challenges in the future, or we can redouble our efforts to master them, broadening our capacities and expertise.

Study skills and learning skills are inert until they're powered by an active ingredient," Dweck says. The active ingredient is the simple but nonetheless profound realization that the power to increase your abilities lies largely within your own control.

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities. What we do shapes who we become and what we're capable of doing. The more we do, the more we can do.

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against creative thinking is a false choice

When you praise for intelligence, kids get the message that being seen as smart is the name of the game. "Emphasizing effort gives a child a rare variable they can control," Dweck says. But "emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of a child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure." 18

In the school of life experience, setbacks show us where we need to do better.