Quotes about Development

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

Article that said in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.