Quotes About Development

He didn't think it at me, I could feel his irritation, and also his recognition of the fact that meatforms did a lot of stupid thing because of our meat, and the senseless chitter of our drunkard's walk evolutionary development didn't help.

You changed; you adapted; you made the most of what you were and strove to become more. He would survive.

Self-improvement is a gift, not a curse. It's a blessing, not a burden. It represents giving yourself something, not taking something away.

Makes of men date, like makes of cars...

Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

We are both what time has wrought of us

more smoothly than you have done this

Maybe we all change over time.

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

good, better, best, never let it rest, until your good is better, and your better best.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.

Why shouldn't it last? We are living in the age of progress, William. Mankind is progressing." To which remark William had always replied with the irritating question, "What to?

Life's very like a husband you know, my dear; it makes you bring forth fruit.

specifically instructed, moving from one model that

It was funny how with grown-ups you had to say the same things again and again. Perhaps that was why babies were born with such big heads: the head stayed the same and the person got larger, but it meant that there was the same amount of room in your brain to remember things, so the longer you lived, the more you forgot.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of art will pass away into the domination of those who think that a good picture can be painted only if the artist's political views record with theirs, and that it is only possible to write a good novel provided the author follows the rules they have laid down.

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the 'power of life'—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.

As with any young species, this one's position is precarious.

Some of us don't. Some of us add up all of the smaller changes into one big lesson, and find our way home as well. A

He was training people to become "sacred warriors"—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind of courage one needs to be kind and happy and radically alive in the midst of the world.