Quotes About Development

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

leaders are at their very best when they are raising up leaders around them.

a leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve

The future is personal.

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now. Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Gifts are free; maturity is expensive.

Princes and princesses are commissioned to see the people they lead reach their full potential in God. That means that the greatest compliment we can ever have is when the people we are leading become greater than us. If we believe that we are leading because we are the most qualified, then we will subconsciously work to undermine other people's advancements.

Not understanding is OK. Restricting our spiritual life to what we understand is not. It is immaturity at best. Such a controlling spirit is destructive to the development of a Christ-like nature. God responds to faith but will not surrender to our demands for control.

When you put a revelation into practice, you won't get it 100 percent right. You might not even get it 50 percent right. But you will learn, and you will grow into a level of maturity you wouldn't otherwise have.

Many have made the mistake of thinking that Christians are to be the heads of all corporations, governments, and departments. As good as that may sound, it's actually a fruit of the true goal. Christlikeness—excellence with humility—is the real goal. Promotion comes from the Lord. If we spent more time developing a Kingdom heart, we'd have more people in key places of leadership.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

something else created modernity, the world that most of us reading this book inhabit. That something was the sudden availability, beginning in the early eighteenth century, of cheap fossil fuel. An exaggeration? One barrel of oil yields as much energy as twenty-five thousand hours of human manual labor

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

We are a result of evolution, and therefore so are our creations—both the not-so-good and very good. It's glorious.

The great questions of evolution bring out the best in us: our boundless curiosity, and our boundless ability to explore. After all, evolution made us who we are.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. That there is a sacredness to individual rights!

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We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

That is what I mean when I say that we die many deaths in the course of our lives: The teenager in you dies, the college student in you dies, the single unattached you dies, the version of you that's a parent of an infant dies, and so on. Once each of these mini-deaths occurs, there's no going back. Maybe "dies" is a bit harsh, but you get the idea: We all keep moving forward, progressing from one stage or phase of our lives to the next.

Given that the human soul is the very core of our human nature, we might note that, when we are guided by soul, we are guided by nature. Both soul and greater nature do guide us in our individual development, whether or not we ask for this guidance.