Quotes About Development

consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

Character and the company of identities that constitute it seem to emerge at times of crisis in the life of man.

Culture and education are two sides of the same coin, and we cannot understand one without understanding the other.

After a while the introvert develops strong extraversive needs; the man whose life has been governed exclusively by thinking craves in time the guide of feeling; the literal man searches eventually for ways of intuiting. So with the principal actors within the human character. Their rebellious understudies, if I may so designate them, are often of opposite persuasion.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

As Uncle Hegel used to enjoy pointing out, the trouble with perspectives is that they are, by definition, PARTIAL points of view; the Real problems are appreciated only when, in the course of the development of the World Spirit, the limits of perspective come to be transcended. Or, to put it less technically, it helps to be able to see the whole elephant.

Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.

We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.

It might be good if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

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Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child's integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.