Quotes About Development

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

There is a time for everything and you do different things at different ages.

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

But) a person grows up and becomes what he is due to the things that happen to him—and maybe he himself caused some of them and maybe other people caused others, and maybe his brain doesn't function just right.

Perhaps instead of scaring ourselves we need to surprise ourselves every day. We are, after all, always a work in progress.

The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

When we think of longer life expectancy, we may envision ten years added to our existence later on. But it may also be that we've added time to adolescence, which now stretches past the teen years and into the twenties.

It's nothing short of astonishing, all that we learn between the time we are born and the time we die. Of course most of the learning takes place not in a classroom or a library, but in the laboratory of our own lives.

Becoming a parent changed and enlarged my son; it's no stretch at all to say that parenthood made us both better people. I've watched him be a father to my grandson, and I've been thrilled by his ability to put his own concerns and needs aside to minister to those of this little boy, to put himself in the place time after time where he is attuned to who his son is and what he needs, whether indulgence or discipline.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.