Quotes About Development

One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.

Our genetic endowments, coupled with many early environmental impacts, establish our childhood intelligence. An environment lacking a sufficient level of stimulation stifles our mental development. An environment with a sufficient level of stimulation enables our genetically different abilities to flower, and at the same time often sets into motion positive social and cultural pressures that reinforce our improvement.

If we all have a sufficiently stimulating environment, then our inherent abilities—our genetic gifts—will dominate in the unfolding of our lives. If we lack a sufficiently stimulating environment, our cognitive gifts never have the chance to blossom.

Our cognitive skills are not fixed. At all ages the brain has the ability to respond to new information and new stimuli. Our intellectual abilities are a combination of our inherent genetic gifts and the lifelong consequences of all of the decisions we make that either positively or negatively contribute to our cognitive fitness.

you can learn something from every failure but you can't learn everything from one failure

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.

just the impact of meeting a personal- ity so developed can be enough to change another's whole way of life.

The result is not the point; it is the effort to improve ourselves that is valuable. There is no end to this practice.

Jeder wiederholt seine Fehler ein Leben lang. Völlig klar, dass sich nichts wirklich weiterentwickelt, denn in jedem spiegelt sich die Welt, die ihre Geschichte wiederholt bis zur Verblödung.

Just because it was done well, doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better.

There is no point in being experienced, if you haven't learned anything.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I am what I have become

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.