Quotes About Development

To go from strength to strength requires learning a new set of life skills.

Allowing that change to happen and developing our inner life helps us get onto the second curve.

But the deeper point of the wisdom is not to make it to one hundred and break life into equal parts; it is to spend significant time in each distinct stage.

Love and friendships are enormously time-consuming, it's true. They crowd out all kinds of other things, like . . . well, let's be honest: for many readers of this book, they mostly crowd out work. If that's the case for you, and it's what is holding back the proper development of romance, parenting, and real friendships, you have your priorities unbalanced.

These attachments must be chipped away to make it possible to jump onto the second curve.

The ideals of free enterprise and global leadership, central to American conservatism, are responsible for the greatest reduction in human misery since mankind began its long climb from the swamp to the stars.

He possessed an unflinching belief that all people — the poor, children, the elderly — were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

I think what I can do is to focus more on what I'm good at and see if I can improve on these positive qualities so that I can continue on the path I'm on now.

I want to train hard, train well, and then help the team with my qualities.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

I think I'm improving a lot but I really need to work harder in training and in games to show my qualities.

The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

I'm always trying to improve on my overall package. Just try to get a little bit harder and maintain the same muscle quality.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.