Quotes About Development

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

THE POINT: Summits and valleys come and go, but progress is a choice.

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

New York in the 1880's was already a city that seemed to have made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable

Beginning with roughly a hundred acres (before he had finished he had added another three hundred), Mr. Lawrence decided to build a town. When his contractor asked him where to put the streets, Lawrence looked at the cow paths meandering up and down the hills and said, "Why not make the streets follow the cow paths?" And so, following the rules of bovine common sense, there the streets are for Mr. Mumford to admire.

strip of real estate than that—to the blocks immediately east, south and west of Central Park.

The best junior officers with at least three years' service could apply for a "high potentials" course which would lead to entry into the General Staff.

His methods did not only develop what Argyris and Schon have called "single-loop learning," in which an organization learns to correct its actions so as to carry on its current policies and fulfill its current objectives, but "double-loop learning," in which the organization's policies, objectives, and behavioral norms are modified.11

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

with the Darwinian view for yet another reason. The Chengjiang discoveries intensify the top-down pattern of appearance

host of distinguished biologists have explained in recent technical papers, small-scale, or "microevolutionary," change cannot be extrapolated to explain large-scale, or "macroevolutionary," innovation

According to Darwinian theory, differences in biological form should increase gradually, steadily increasing the number of distinct body plans and phyla, over time. References for first appearances are found in note 5 of this chapter.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.

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The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.