Quotes about Development

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Our subconscious mind is like a little kid who doesn't know any better and, not coincidentally, receives most of its information when we're little kids and don't know any better (because our frontal lobes, the conscious part of our brains, hasn't fully formed yet).

Anaïs Nin that reads: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

All life is either moving forward and evolving or shrinking back and dying. If you want to evolve in your own life, you have to push through the obstacles instead of running from them.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

My name is an acronym for EA - EA All Day. It's a persona that I developed over the years in sports as a caricature of myself. On the field, in practice, in the weight room, I was just a character and a personality.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.