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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
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"In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me."

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Howard Hughes Aviator, Businessman
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"One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop."

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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
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"Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development."

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Lech Walesa Politician, Activist
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"Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
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"In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon."

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