Quotes about Development

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the environment. The unreasonable man adapts the environment to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable.

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; we must have something beside Gospel i' this world. Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things, I reckon. But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.