Quotes about Development

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Nothing happens until something moves.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.

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.