Quotes About Development

He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.

There haven't been civilizations without cities. But what about cities without civilizations? An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another. No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens.

Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, comical. It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.

You must take your chance on what you are. And you can't sit still. I know this double poser, that if you make a move you may lose but if you sit still you will decay. But what will you lose? You will not invent better than God or nature or turn yourself into the man who lacks no gift or development before you make the move. This is not given to us.

The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success

I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

This was my first exposure to the idea that one should have a system instead of a goal. The system was to continually look for better options.

failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success.

It's smarter to see your big-idea projects as part of a system to improve your energy, contacts, and skills.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness

Success cures most types of "mistakes" you made or got criticized for during the process.

Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.

long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

And always remember that failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success. Invite it in. Learn from it. And don't let it leave until you pick its pocket. That's a system.

Books change us automatically, just as any experience does.

Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.

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Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

Never be yourself if you can make yourself into something better through your conscious actions. You are what you do.

Ethics are important because they give direction to people and societies who have some sense that they cannot flourish without being moral.

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." – M. Scott Peck

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.