Quotes about Development

It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

Maximus remained a child of his time, a disciple of his master. But the fact that he was able to develop his own basic insight, in spite of such influences, makes him one of the greatest thinkers in Christian intellectual history.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.

it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Someone once wondered why it is that if a work of Man is destroyed, it is called vandalism, but if a work of nature, of God, is destroyed it is so often called progress.

In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.