Quotes About Development

Child's creativity – indeed, the human faculty of imagination – presupposes a capacity to be alone, which itself can arise only out of basic confidence in the care of a loved one.

The Buddha has no intention of answering the question about higher states of consciousness yet. He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of 'agraria'.

According to the report of the UN's Bruntlandt Commission of 1987, which might be credited with first popularizing the term, sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

do you really think that geniuses come from genes? Well, maybe they do. But how close have we ever got to making the most of our genes? That's the real question. You can't possibly give me an answer, Burris, and you know it. There has been absolutely no way of answering it until now, because it has never been possible to manipulate the environment in the required way.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Men build society and society builds men.

How long does it take for habits to grow to their full expression? There is no universal answer. Any advice you hear about a habit taking twenty-one or sixty days to fully form is not entirely accurate. There is no magic number of days.

Start with three super easy habits—that's what most Habiteers begin with—and add three new habits each month.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

Perfecting: Always Be Happy with the Smallest Improvement

It is almost impossible to jump from "bad" to "best" without passing through "good." Also, as ignorance recedes, "good" is an infinitely more comfortable place to be than "bad." What we call "bad" is ignorance in action and, as a strategy for life, thrives only on darkness.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.

States as great engines move slowly.

Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type—a persistent character—is formed.

The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.