Quotes About Development

Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

first book of Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Awe, you see, is what moves us forward.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Barangkali tugas manusia ialah memunggah batu-batu halangan dan menggunakannya sebagai dasar atau landas sebuah bangunan yang baru.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going

We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.

Her character, Mr. Wogan, is a tender and delicate plant. It will not grow under glass, but in a dark room, where I believe it flourishes most invisibly.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view. It destroys the purity of their world.

Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.

When we consider a child's natural interest in things, we begin to realize the dangers of both reward and punishment. Rewards and punishment tend to pressure a child into interest. But true interest is the life force of the whole personality, and such interest is completely spontaneous.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

El amor es como una planta o un animal. Vive y se desarrolla. Nace, crece, envejece y muere.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!