Quotes About Development

Love and respect are sides of the same coin for development

Obaveštavajte me sigurno o svom radu, zasad su vaše slike isuviše zbrkane i nedostaje im pe?at li?nosti. Radite! Radite! Treba sa?ekati razvoj vaših nesumnjivih kvaliteta. Nadam se da ?u jednog dana mo? da se vama pozabavim" –pismo Pjera Leba, Pariz,1926

Families create specialists.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I

Davidson had become a strong believer in the concept of neuroplasticity, the idea that people's brains will physically change over time and that those changes can depend on their life experiences.

We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Mere belief cannot create anything in life, only action can, and it is here that we must begin our spiritual development: through conscious action, within. This leads us to the very meaning of the word Gnosis: personal knowledge acquired through experience. The true Gnostic does not believe, he knows because he has experienced it.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).

DüÅŸünüyordum kendime kendime: Tam bir çekirdekle eksik bir aÄŸaç aras?ndaki fark, tam çekirdeÄŸin ç?kmaza girdiÄŸi ve deÄŸiÅŸmediÄŸi takdirde çürüyeceÄŸi, eksik aÄŸac?n ise önünde çok parlak bir geleceÄŸi olduÄŸuydu

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.

There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness now should provide small comfort. ...what will they not in the end become?

Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.