Quotes About Development

Give a man five years, and, with unfortunate exceptions of course, he will find his level on the Pacific, and his place, whether high or low, as naturally as a stream of water.

God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

However, leadership is not confined to the CEO. Leadership is better understood as a process that can take place at any level of an organization.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Well. What can we do, except try to do better?

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

Doing better next time. That's what life is.

Heresy and progress often look much alike.

Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

Adah discovered she had a knack for reading people. She took that God-given talent and further developed her observational skills. Everyone had a tell, and she used that more than anything else to survive by fortune-telling.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

My wife is pregnant, and her physician told her that physiologically and medically speaking, there are three different kinds of humans: men, women, and pregnant women. I think the same idea applies to you, Edward. There are grown-ups, children, and then you. You don't feel like a kid anymore, right?" Edward nods. "But you won't be an adult for years. You're something else, and we need to figure out what you are, so we can figure out how to help you.

Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child's own truest self would always be the present one.

It were purely like a snowball and everybody gave it a push...

You can never know enough about your characters." —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

The proper function of any school is to train character, and all its studies are of importance only as means by which this end can be attained.

What the child is and is becoming--that is the question today with the foremost teachers, not how much he knows.

History in the making is a very uncertain thing.

There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves.

Et parce qu'on ne peut pas grandir dans une maison où les gens ne s'aiment plus, si? Non, on ne peut pas. Pousser peut-être, mais pas grandir. (L'échappée belle, p.70)

more interesting as they grow older, and I particularly want to keep an eye on them once they start their schooling.