Quotes About Development

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

When you are finished changing, you're finished.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Do not fear mistakes.

We may make these times better, if we better ourselves.

At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.

By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.

an investment in education gives the best returns

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst man good throughout.

A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.

He said I appeared a young man of promising parts, and therefore should be encouraged;

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus.

In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

A word about TV: If a television is on, an infant will stare at it. This is not a sign of advanced development. TV entertains at a cost. Young children easily become dependent on the TV for stimulation and lose some of their natural drive to explore. A child with a plastic cup and spoon, a few wooden blocks, and a board book can think up fifty creative ways to use those objects; a child in front of a TV can only do one thing.

The depth of your sincerity and openheartedness are the most relevant factors in meditation for spiritual development.