Quotes about Development

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.