Quotes about Development
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
— Aristotle
Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.
— Aristotle
The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.
— Aristotle
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
— Cicero
People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
— Tim Henman
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
— Clayton M. Christensen
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
— Frederick Douglass
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.
— Jerry Bridges
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
— Frank Herbert