Quotes About Development

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

Older and wiser and no better

Feedback functions formatively only if the information fed back to the learner is used by the learner in improving performance.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

a mature understanding of death appears to be one of the last milestones in the cognitive development and evolution of the human brain.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.

In healthy development, trust evolves. How do we decide whether to trust? We share a feeling with someone and watch their reaction; if the response feels safe, if it is caring, noncritical, non-abusive, the first step of trust has developed. For trust to grow, this positive response must become part of a relatively reliable pattern… Trust develops with consistency over time.

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.

Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story." She did develop most wonderfully day by day.

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.

They go forth into it with well deveoped bodies,fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts... An undeveloped heart, not a cold one. The difference is important...

To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war.

The idealism and the brutality that ran through boyhood had joined at last, and twined into love.

As civilization moves forward, the shoe is bound to pinch in places