Quotes About Development

When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. Once act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this.

Then you've got a chance to do better next time.' 'Next time?' 'Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

The best lessons one teaches oneself.

But I never stop trying. Doing better next time, after all, that's what life is.

Progress just means bad things happen faster." Terry Pratchett

Siempre puede intentar hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. En eso consiste la vida.

better next time. That's what life is." Logen

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

The executive coach and teacher John Schuster

self-directed neuroplasticity (or SDN).

Without learning and experiencing, we never upgrade our neural architecture.

If you keep the same routine as yesterday, it makes sense that your tomorrow is going to be a lot like your yesterday.

An experience creates an emotional reaction, which then can turn into a mood, then into a temperament, and finally into a personality trait.

We] have to be given obstacles in order to overcome those obstacles - to become stronger, more aware, more involved, more responsible.

7º MANDAMIENTO: MEJORAR LOS PUNTOS DÉBILES

plyometrics movements. This is when you are getting the hang of doing the movements that are involved in both types of training and refining them. Following AA, as you move into the MT and MS periods, gradually increase both the weight loads and the plyometric intensities. For example, move from rope skipping to low-box jumping to high-box jumping. The MS period is when you will

Start doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

A menudo las mujeres pierden la ternura de sus primeros años del mismo modo que un niño pierde los dientes de leche.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

The Sumerians, living five thousand years ago in what is now Iran, are commonly believed to be the world's first civilization.

The Philippines has no indigenous, value-added manufacturing capacity. At the end of the Second World War only Japan and Malaysia had higher incomes per capita in Asia. Then Korea and Taiwan overtook the Philippines in the 1950s. The country slid down past Thailand in the 1980s, and Indonesia more recently. From having been in a position near the top of the Asian pile, the Philippines today is an authentic, technology-less Third World state with poverty rates to match.