Quotes About Development

In order to grow stronger, we need a container for our energies. That container is best built by ongoing practice, self-observation, and learning how to connect outward from our center.

In America, drug companies and medical device makers argue that they have to charge high prices to fund their research and development. But Japanese experience shows that tough cost controls tend to drive innovation, not stifle it.

Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.

Well, the Theatre's certainly not what it was.

And for a hundred visions and revisions

T.S. Eliot said to me "There's only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn't matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it's in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.

Things change, but only into themselves. Downstairs

Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.

It started in mud, as many things do.

Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. Arab

Apprendre tout au long de sa vie, c'est développer pleinement la sagesse qui vient normalement avec l'âge.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

New learning never hurt anybody.

A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.

He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done.

But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do—

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you repeat an action, you develop a habit. When you maintain a habit, you create a character.

The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.