Quotes About Development

Y se fue. Y ella se convirtió en mejor lectora.

An accident of brain development stacked the deck against children: the mother had three or four years to fuck with your head before your hippocampus began recording lasting memories. You'd been talking to your mom since you were one year old and listening to her for even longer, but you couldn't remember a single word of what you or she had said before your hippocampus kicked into gear. Your

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning

The earlier you intervene, the less likely that people will get defensive. The more real-time and specific your feedback is, the easier it is for people to receive it and learn from it. The

Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for

il te faut seulement comprendre que te retrouver à la case départ n'est pas une régression. Te retrouver quelque part, c'est une déjà une bonne chose en soi - cela veut dire que tu as conscience de ce que tu fais.

A group of boys lumbered down the halls of Adas Israel, laughing, punching, blood rushing from developing brains to developing genitals and back again in the zero-sum game of puberty.

whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

Darwin argues, essentially, that all the sophistications we see in the eagle's or the human's eye could have arisen gradually, by stages, across geological spans of time, each stage conferring somewhat clearer vision than the one before.

Toda relación que no favorezca la expansión del Yo, que impida el crecimiento, aun cuando sea estable y/ o aparentemente gratificadora, encierra el germen de su propia destrucción.

Estar de duelo no es estar enfermo. Más bien, al contrario, el proceso que conlleva la superación de una pérdida es la garantía de desarrollo, crecimiento y salud.

Vivo y aprendo, vivo y maduro, vivo y crezco.

Crecer significa aumentar el espacio que cada uno ocupa. En la medida que haya más espacio, habrá más posibilidades.

dejar atrás aquellos preconceptos y vivencias relacionados a un yo que ya no soy; es abandonar el pedirme que siga siendo como era, pensando como lo hacía o reaccionando como solía hacerlo.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

After forty, every change becomes a symbol of time's passing.

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. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

In an anthropological respect, let me reiterate, a human being is an aesthetic creature before he is an ethical one. Therefore, it is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species' development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature – and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution – is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Awe is what moves us forward.

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.