Quotes About Development

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

A resolute, decisive, open, courageous character with deep faith in God is what you want to develop.

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Otra cosa más, chico, que tienes que recordar: lo que importa no es cómo empieza una historia. Ni cómo termina. -¿Entonces qué? -Lo que pasa en medio.

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

Como dije, es indudable que existen emociones negativas y peligrosas que hay que aprender a gestionar, pero hay otras que deben asimilarse sin tanto recato. ¿Enseñamos ambas a nuestros niños: lo bueno para disfrutar y lo malo para eliminar? ¿O metemos todo en un mismo saco? ¿Fomentamos la "inteligencia emocional" o el "retardo emocional"?

La vida no se trata de encontrarte a ti mismo, la vida se trata de crearte a ti mismo. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Las personas aprenden por ensayo y error y tú no escapas a ese principio.

Além disso, talvez o trauma que hoje o consome lhe traga, em compensação, um crescimento pós-traumático, a partir do qual você desenvolverá sua potencialidade como nunca fizera antes.

Si no cambias, te cambian, ésa es la lógica del progreso. Si te quedas petrificado en la costumbre, la historia te pasa por encima. Está demostrado que los que se resisten al cambio suelen terminar aplastados por la contundencia de los hechos.

Este impulso a investigar que mueve a los individuos, ayuda a que el sistema conductual heredado se enriquezca y aumente el repertorio de recursos para afrontar peligros y preverlos. Es una forma de autoestimulación que desarrolla más  sustancia blanca del cerebro (mielinización) para que podamos aprender más y mejor. Explorar es curiosear y la curiosidad es uno de los factores que ha permitido la evolución y mantenimiento de la vida en el planeta.

Coherencia y flexibilidad, la clave de todo crecimiento personal: intentar ser consecuente, pero abierto al cambio.

In pursuing the goal of development, one must start with the producers and move on from there to see whether the products of their labor are being rationally utilized to bring greater independence and well-being to the nation. (23)

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That's nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country in the world, the United States, was once a colony. By contrast, Ethiopia, Liberia, Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan were never colonies, but they are home to the world's poorest people.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

If there had been no gold discovery, Oregon would probably have been ready for admission as a state before California was. The first transcontinental railroad might have been built to Oregon. But if California's first transcontinental railroad had been built later, it might have been in the hands of a somewhat less rapacious group of men, and it might have obtained less of a stranglehold on the state's economy and politics.

Henry Huntington shaped the system of transportation which, along with other forces, launched the entire region from Santa Monica to Redlands and from San Fernando to Santa Ana, on the road to becoming the great City of Southern California.

Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come