Quotes About Development

I did remember. Mr. Rector and Mr. Endicott had basically taken a beautiful island paradise and bulldozed it into an ugly subdivision, complete with tennis courts and a tiki bar.

Time erodes us all.

still Class 3T? Or are we Class 3G now?

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

It's never too late to understand and strengthen a mind.

think schools should assume responsibility for teaching kids how to learn, and parents need to have the assignment of teaching kids how to work!

The women are young, young, young, liquidy and sweet-looking; they are batter, and I am the sponge cake they don't know they'll become. I stand here, a lone loaf, stuck to the pan.

There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.

As we develop our lives, set our goals, and find things to do that interest us, peace will become comfortable—more comfortable than chaos.

Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.

We are never starting over. In recovery, we are moving forward in a perfectly planned progression of lessons.

I believe we can successfully turn every aspect of our lives into a goal. If it bothers us, make it a goal. If we're aware something needs to be changed, make it a goal. If we want it, make it a goal.

Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.

If the pupil was worthy to be trained, there came a time when the master must allow the pupil to train himself, to use and become all that the master had seen in him, fulfilling his true potential.

If something went right, it was a teaching thing, and if something went wrong…it was a teaching thing.

he had grown; several buttons burst off. His

Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change.

Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love.

WE LEARN ABOUT love in childhood. Whether our homes are happy or troubled, our families functional or dysfunctional, it's the original school of love.

M. Scott Peck's classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

A test. Other races on other worlds have tried it and failed. Wiped themselves out. Overpopulated to the point of total ecological collapse. Destroyed themselves in wars. We've got to make sure that the human race discovers nanotechnology in the right way and develops it wisely, usefully. Not for power. Not for weapons. Humanely. Then we'll be ready to meet the other races that have succeeded, that have passed this test and become truly intelligent, truly adult.