Quotes About Development

But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow.

Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.

Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound like a damned insult.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

There's no silver bullet. You cannot helicopter people out of poverty.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

You are growth-seeking Beings, and as you are moving forward, you are at your happiest.

Simply put, if someone had not prodded you into more expansion, you could not feel the pain of not keeping up with that expansion. The interaction

That overall, all-inclusive, never-changing set of rules does not exist—for you are ever-changing, growth-seeking Beings.

If that which was figured out long ago was the ultimate, then there would be no reason for your existence today.

Once he was going, it was difficult to stop him. "Mathematics is like carving a wooden doll," he said, "and then, one day, you watch as your wooden doll gives birth to another wooden doll." These words have stayed with me all my life.

Like a dead branch falling from a tree, which them decomposes and nourishes the soil, your disappointments can transform into the elements of change and growth.

thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.

As we've said, those people weren't "born this way" (if they were, what use would they be as examples for us?). Rather, they were brave enough and patient enough to slowly develop themselves, to till the fertile soil of their own minds over time.

to engage in any path of well-being or self-development, some small part of us must already believe that we're worth developing.

DISCIPLINE DOESN'T MEAN LIMITING your freedom. It's the impetus for developing a structure to your activity, which comes from taking deadly seriously—with a strong sense of humor—the truth of interdependence.

If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.

After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or a foreign language.

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.

Authorities are the ruination of great talents, and form almost the entire talent of mediocrities. They are the leading strings with which everyone learns to walk at the beginning of their careers, but they almost always leave a permanent mark. People like Ingres never get them out of their systems and never take a step without invoking their help. It is as though they wished to eat bread and milk all their lives (Monday 10th October 1853)

Before you begin, study unceasingly, but once started, make mistakes if you must but you must execute freely (12 May 1855).

Par quelle triste fatalité l'homme ne peut-il jamais jouir à la fois de toutes les facultés de sa nature, de toutes les perfections dont elle n'est susceptible qu'à des âges différents?" (Mardi 9 octobre, 1849)

Is it not very clear that progress, that is to say, the onward march of all things, good as well as evil, has brought our civilization to the brink of an abyss into which it may possibly fall, giving place to utter barbarism? And the reason for this…is it not to be found in the law that dominates all others here below, the need for change in some form or other? We must change. (Monday 23 April 1849)