Quotes About Development

We cannot tell when Rockefeller first felt shame about his father, but this emotion was so consequential for his entire development that we must pause briefly to consider it.

Rebates had inevitably accompanied railroad expansion.

A parte habitada da cidade estendia-se da Battery até o Common.

Baptism fostered a rational outlook that was well suited to advancement in capitalist society.

As the years went by

If education depended upon healthy tax rolls, then they would lift the entire tax base of the South.

That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.

Charles Dickens, visiting the United States five years earlier, had described Washington as "the City of Magnificent Intentions,"12 with "spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete.

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.

We do more for the under developed nations than anyone in the world but they act as if we're out to destroy them and they never say boo to the Soviets.

when there's no plot line there are no digressions.

To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.

tiene relación con la mayor o menor exposición a la testosterona en el útero materno.

La infancia es el lugar en el que habitas el resto de tu vida.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards. Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories

He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.

The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion.

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

The essential function of challenging behavior is to communicate to adults that a kid doesn't possess the skills to handle certain demands in certain situations.

Challenging kids are lacking the skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, skills most of us take for granted.