Quotes About Development

The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.

this sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.

morality is often the first casualty to progress.

The Great Stagnation

thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

While he remained "steadfast in refusing to take part in Catholic services during the next four decades," Tobin's "intellectual development showed clear marks of his Jesuit training," Doig suggests, especially in his intense rationalism, appreciation of debate, and devotion to the classics.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is still born!

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,To teach the young idea how to shoot.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

This reduces the risk of "worked in dev, now an ops problem.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.

At any rate, this was the weekend that things started to change, that the dark gaps between the street lamps begin to grow smaller, and smaller, and farther apart, the first sign that one's train is approaching familiar territory, and will soon be passing through the well-known, well-lighted streets of town.

Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. More important than what happened to them was how they responded to these reversals, how they managed in various ways to put themselves back together, how these watershed experiences at first impeded, then deepened, and finally and decisively molded their leadership.

Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.

Roosevelt declared, arguing that "the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.

While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body.

In the end, the unending strain with his father enhanced, rather than diminished, young Lincoln's ambition. Year after year, as he persevered in defiance of his father's wishes, managing his negative emotions and exercising his will to slowly master one subject after another, he developed an increasing belief in his own strengths and powers.