Quotes about Development

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

Words aren't made — they grow," said Anne.

Babies are such fascinating creatures, said Anne dreamily. They are what I heard somebody at Redmond call, 'terrific bundles of potentialities.'...

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'