Quotes about Development

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

Practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

Practice is the key to mastering any skill.

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

To develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for. In modern terms, however, we say, "Fake it until you make it".

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.

I would expect a significant development and elaboration of language in only a few generations if all the chimps unable to communicate were to die or fail to reproduce. Basic English corresponds to about 1,000 words. Chimpanzees are already accomplished in vocabularies exceeding 10 percent of that number.

Abandoning science is the road back into poverty and backwardness.