Quotes About Development

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential." The Last Lecture

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential

But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? Some

When we send our kids to play organized sports—football, soccer, swimming, whatever—for most of us, it's not because we're desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a "head fake." There

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing

One scratch on the wall is just a scratch. Many scratches, however, may change the shape of the wall. Often many incremental steps rather than a single blow, bring about historical changes.

As soon as we pass through the birth canal we begin to become 90 percent microbe.

happiness is an exclusive quality of the soul. Thus, a body  that  attains  all  the  material  successes  it  longs  for—money,  power,  fame, etc.—often belongs to an unhappy person. Happiness depends totally on the degree of growth and development attained by the soul, the real person. The

In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.

Never give 100% when start of something, it will take time, patience, and effort to build an empire.

My thinking is my possession; always ready to exchange for a better version of that.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

GI moves past Mbye but he doesn't go too far.

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

I believe that if you think small, you'll stay small. Getting

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot