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1 " Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars. "
2 " Self-reflection enables every person to alter the trajectory of their personal storyline by reviewing a series of episodic occurrences and making value judgments regarding the past. How we perceive our history colors the present, our deeds of today script the future outcome of individual persons, and the outcome of many people making conscious decisions using their cognitive processes including the ability to remember and share memories influences the direction of human development and the progress of society. "
3 " The specious idea that gender differences are due entirely to culture, and have nothing to do with biological or archetypal predispositions, still enjoys wide currency in our society, yet it rests on the discredited tabula rasa theory of human development and is at variance with the overwhelming mass of anthropological and scientific evidence. "
― Anthony Stevens , Jung: A Very Short Introduction
4 " Unravelling the complexity of human development is a daunting task and it is unlikely that scientists will ever be able to do so for even one individual, because the interactions of biology and environment are likelihoods and not certainties. There are just too many ways that the cards could stack up. More importantly, as the vernacular saying goes, " Shit happens" , which is a very succinct and scientifically accurate way of saying that random events during development can change the course of who we become in unpredictable ways. "
5 " the key to human development is building on who you already are "
― Tom Rath , Strengths Finder 2.0
6 " ...the whole configuration of human development needs to be reconceptualized. A lifetime ought not to be thought of in linear manner, an ascending upward gradient, or a kind of bell-shaped curve in which persons develop from one stage of helplessness as an infant through a lifetime to a final stage of helplessness in old age... In...God resides the ultimate coherence from whom each passion for understanding, each new insight, new stage, new vision of the universe, derives its ultimate intelligibility and toward which all such phenomena point. "
― , The Logic of the Spirit: Human Development in Theological Perspective
7 " Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul, "
8 " The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds. "
9 " America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. "
10 " You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. "
