Developmental Quotes

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Glasses, Ideas

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Philosophical, Acceptance

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• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Self Worth, Firsts

  "A Declaration of Independence". Malcolm X's Statement at the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, New York, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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• A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Doe, May

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.109, Hackett Publishing

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• It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

  Alison Gopnik

  Kids, Advice, Psychology

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• A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Noble, Nobility

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1790.

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• Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

  Mary Bono

  Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Growing

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• I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.

  Alex Timbers

  Thinking, Careers, Eras

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• I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.

  Channing Tatum

  Running, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

  Marina Abramovic

  Children, Artist, Missing

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• Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.

  Stella Chess

  Sex, Children, Teaching

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Stress, Home

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• ... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Love, Age, Three

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• The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Distance, Independent, Adults

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• In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

  Jean Piaget

  Psychology, Epistemology, Absolutes

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• The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Mean, Reflection

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.159, Crown

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• Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Sports, Support, Community

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• Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.

  Henry Cloud

  Growth, Shy, Development

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• Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Expression, Individual Differences

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• Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

  Alison Gopnik

  Design, Scientist, Like Me

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• Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Philosophy, Real

  "What Is It Like to Be a Baby?". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com. September 1, 2009.

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• What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Women, Grieving

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

  Michael Sandel

  Jewish Tradition, Views, Catholic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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