#Development Quotes

“Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”

“Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.”

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

“Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.”

“All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.”

“I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them”

“You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.”

“You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them”

“You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise”

“Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.”

“A true leader produces more leaders.”

“Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?”

“That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.”

“In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.”

“The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.”

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”

“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”

“I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.”

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”

“Progress is impossible without change”

“It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.”

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.”

“I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.”

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

“The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

“Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.”

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

“Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”

“Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.”

“Leaders are made, they are not born”

“We know there is no progress in a straight line.”

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.”

“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”