Quotes About Development

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

it's the same monkeys, different barrel.

Briefly, I was a journalist in my twenties, although not a very good one. I didn't quite grasp the whole concept of accuracy.

Probably no people embrace change more enthusiastically, at least in theory, than Americans. Who we are at birth is less important to us than who we will become. We are expected—indeed, obligated—not just to be, but to become.

The key lever in a complex system is learning; the key methods are conversation, discovery, and experimentation.14 In a complicated case, you have distinct times for diagnosing the problem, coming up with the solution, and then implementing that solution.

What is only crudely established during character creation is fleshed out in play.

No aspect of personality can ever be changed through experience points.

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.

What is it with boys and fighting? I am amazed any of them get to be grown-ups the way they're always going at it.

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

Children's behavior that we find disruptive or hurtful isn't "mis" anything. We may find it annoying, troubling, or infuriating, but it isn't intrinsically "bad" or "wrong." On the contrary, a child's behavior is exceedingly accurate. It is at once a true expression of their need at a particular moment as well as a reflection of their current ability to meet that need.

but if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

amounts some years

we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.

a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects;

Ognuno di noi ha dovuto cominciare, incespicando e barcollando sulla soglia, e se i nostri insegnanti ci avessero scherniti anziché aiutarci, continueremmo ancora oggi a incespicare e a barcollare.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I GAINED it so, By climbing slow, By catching at the twigs that grow Between the bliss and me.

That either (a) she uses children to hide her real adult emotions, or (b) she is still a child herself.

Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.

It does sometimes seem as if the nineteenth century hasn't reached this part of the world yet." He

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.