Quotes About Development

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

Gadna was pre-military training for fifteen- to seventeen-year-olds.

And we can grow as much through our mistakes, through our failures, as we can through our successes.

What's the storm called, anyway?" "Progress." She grinned.

Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive.

A year earlier, restaurants had been asking if he wanted a booster seat; now they asked if he'd like a drink.

Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant you lose the will to evolve.

Gradually, the nations living in this cradle of mankind, having created great, monumental civilizations, as if exhausted by the superhuman effort, or perhaps even crushed by the immensity of what they had brought forth and no longer capable of further developing it, handed over the reins to younger peoples, bursting with energy and eager to live. Europe will come on the scene and, later, America.

A los doce años, James Joyce escribía cartas dignas de atención; yo, con la misma edad, corría por el campo en pos de las vacas y no había leído un solo libro.

An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor in the development of his life. Apostolic calling is a paradoxical factor, which from first to last in his life stands paradoxically outside his personal identity with himself as the definite person he is.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

he who will not pass through this curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.

What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself

We create our gods based on the stage of development we are at in matters of ethics, morals and spirituality.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language...

This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?

children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us.

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.