Quotes About Development

they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.

The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration.

The very best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

The proper use of the mind of man will build a brain capable of doing what the mind wants to do. The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

It is wonderful Becoming.

Man was formed for growth, and all things external were designed to promote his growth.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

Buddhism does not recognize a spirit opposed to matter, as is accepted by most other systems of philosophies and religions. Mind is only a faculty or organ (indriya) like the eye or the ear. It can be controlled and developed like any other faculty [...]. The difference between the eye and the mind as faculties is that the former senses the world of colours and visible forms, while the latter senses the world of ideas and thoughts and mental objects.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Few things are as essential as education.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;

Overtime my writing style has evolved in part because I try to do something different with each book.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

We're suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don't read but, actually, we're condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, 'Take this or you're going to die.' We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.