Quotes about Development

An artist is first an amateur.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?

For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

At times emerging leaders limit their future possibilities by their impatience. They look for shortcuts to success, but God is methodical. He typically lays a foundation of character before building a superstructure of leadership.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet.

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.