Quotes About Development

I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.

Gyo(?) You practice; you reach a new level; and then you practice again.

Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

The production of myelin by OPCs in the brains of infants and children helps explain how they do smart things; the incomplete myelination of the prefrontal cortex in the brains of teens helps explain why they do stupid things.)

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

A tree grows taller to the degree that its roots go deeper and wider. If we wish to jump high, we must first bend close to the ground to get the impetus for the spring. Like a jet engine, we move forward by thrusting backward. In therapy each backward move provides the energy for the leap forward. Regression and progression go on side by side.

intellectualized insight alone is not sufficient to result in positive changes.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance,And men must walk, at least, before they dance.