Quotes about Development
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
— Oscar Wilde
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
— Oscar Wilde
I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.
— Cormac McCarthy
Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto
— Dale Carnegie
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
— Dale Carnegie
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. To become a more effective leader of people, apply… Principle 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
— Dale Carnegie
We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.
— Dale Carnegie
The average person," said Samuel Vauclain, then president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, "can be led readily if you have his or her respect and if you show that you respect that person for some kind of ability." In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain aspect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics.
— Dale Carnegie
It was no longer necessary to react the way we used to. The children were doing far more right things than wrong ones." All of this was a result of praising the slightest improvement in the children rather than condemning everything they did wrong. This works on the job too. Keith Roper of
— Dale Carnegie
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
— Wanda Brunstetter
The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.
— Wendell Berry
Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.
— Charles Martin