Quotes about Development

If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You know, the ones you read on your sofa with a nice cup of tea.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

All children are rebellious. They are all self-centered and think the world revolves around them. That is why they need parents to raise them. Almost every child will, at times, bring reproach on his family, but he is still a part of the family.

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.