Quotes About Development

Children are damaged when their "mercifully" inattentive parents fail to make them sharp and observant and awake and leave them, instead, in an unconscious and undifferentiated state. Children are damaged when those charged with their care, afraid of any conflict or upset, no longer dare to correct them, and leave them without guidance.

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.

No one unwilling to be a foolish beginner can learn.

There's almost nothing better than character development. And aiming at having a good character is the highest aim, and it's the aim that will provide the most meaning in your life.

The human body is an immensely complex system, and there are only a few of its features we can measure, let alone manipulate. Based on the correlations we can observe, there are lots of drugs that might plausibly have a desired health effect. And so you try them out in experiments, and most of them fail dismally. To work in drug development requires a resilient psyche, not to mention a vast pool of capital.

Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune away big parts of the data that aren't relevant to the problem at hand! The fastest computation is the one you don't do.

Don't compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Right. So in order to become lifelong thinkers, all we have to do is stop thinking for ourselves for the next three years. I'm feeling better and better about this place by the minute.

Al aumentar desproporcionadamente el tamaño de una zona cerebral hace que esta tienda a contactar con zonas que antes no inervaba, produciéndose una interacción entre estas zonas que no se daba en la especie ancestral, lo que puede llevar a mejoras funcionales.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

There is always room for improvement, you know—it's the biggest room in the house." —Louise Heath Leber

Lo primero que aprende a hacer un niño mexicano al llegar a este mundo, es llorar para que se atienda a sus necesidades. Lo siguiente que aprende es a tocar el claxon del coche de su papá, con el mismo objeto. Y toca el claxon y toca más.

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

The fact is that ,pain being one of the consequences of education,in that it grows greater and sharper with the growth of ideas ,it follows that the more we try to polish the minds and refine the nervous system of the under-privileged , the more we shall be developing in their hearts the atrociously active germs of hatred and moral suffering.

Progress is the hypocrisy in which vice is refined!

La libertad se aprende obedeciendo primero, porque esta obediencia permite construir las herramientas psicológicas de la libertad.

Nadie inventó el subjuntivo ni la conjunción copulativa. Fue una gigantesca interacción comunicativa, expresiva, hiriente o amorosa a la que pulió las herramientas lingüísticas.

If you want to make use of the advantages of civilization, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization—you are done.

If you want to make use of the advantages of civilisation, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilisation—you are done.

El que no cultiva su mente, va derecho a la disgregación de su personalidad.

Ang dalisay na hanging ito at ang mga batong itong napakalilinis ay mapupuno ng karbon, ng mga kahon at bariles, ng mga bunga ng sipag ng tao.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.