Quotes About Development

Incompetent people lack the skills to improve because they are unable to distinguish between incompetence and competence.

First, to be useful, learning requires memory, so what we've learned is still there later when we need it. Second, we need to keep learning and remembering all our lives. We can't advance through middle school without some mastery of language arts, math, science, and social studies. Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues. In retirement, we pick up new interests. In our dotage, we move into simpler housing while we're still able to adapt.

It's not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.

Third, learning is an acquired skill, and the most effective strategies are often counterintuitive.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

What's measured improves

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

babies are God's way of persuading parents to have teenagers.

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

attachment relationship between infant and caregiver is itself an affective bond.

during the second half of the first year, "regulation of arousal and emotion no longer depend simply on what the caregiver does, but on how the infant interprets the caregiver's accessibility and behavior

Mentalization is intrinsically linked to the development of the self, to its gradually elaborated inner organization, and to its participation in human society, a network of human relationships with other beings who share this unique capacity. We have used the term "reflective function" to refer to our operationalization of the mental capacities that generate mentalization (Fonagy, Target, Steele, and Steele 1998).