Quotes About Development

I expected marriage to be a door that we went through. Like a new house, you step into it, expecting it to be an unchanging space to inhabit. But, of course, I was wrong. Marriage is a living, changing thing that you must tend to both alone and together It grows in all sorts of ways, both ordinary and unexpected.

The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil, paper and laptop- is going to have to write the codes... One can mass-produce hardware and increase it's power by piling on more and more chips, but you cannot mass-produce the brain.

For example, you might have a sever sunburn as a child. Many decades later, you might develop skin cancer at that same site. This means it probably took that long for the other mutation to occur and finally tip the cell into a cancerous mode.

I sometimes think about how easy it is for a nation to slip into complacency and ruin after decades of basking in the sun. Since science is the engine of prosperity, nations that turn their backs on science and technology eventually enter a downward spiral.

One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.

If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be seen as the story of rising energy consumption.

Likewise, even life on Earth seems to violate the second law, because it takes just nine months to convert hamburgers and french fries into a baby, which truly is a miracle.

The most ancient part of our brain is at the very back, where balance, territoriality, and instincts are processed. The brain expanded in the forward direction and developed the limbic system, the monkey brain of emotions, located in the center of the brain. This progression from the back to the front is also the way a child's brain matures.

the birthrate falls dramatically as a nation industrializes, urbanizes, and educates young girls.

starting with mice, cats, and going up the evolutionary scale of animals.

Originally, you were clay. From being mineral, you became vegetable. From vegetable, you became animal, and from animal, man…And you have to go through a hundred different worlds yet. There are a thousand forms of mind. —RUMI

To do this, we will have to exploit the fourth wave of science, which consists of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.

Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it's going to push you to grow.

That's a seed

El cambio requiere acción. Una acción lleva a otra, y a otra, hasta que los nuevos hábitos se vuelven automáticos y los cambios se hacen evidentes.

Las pasiones no son sino ideas en su desarrollo inicial: son atributo de la juventud del corazón, y tonto sería quien pensara que han de inquietarle toda la vida: mochos ríos tranquilos nacen como cascadas tumultuosas, pero ninguno llega hasta el mar turbulento y coronado de espuma.

Too many leaders focus all their energy on moving to the next chair as quickly as possible, and they miss the opportunity to develop their gifts in the current chair.

It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, This is impossible. I'd gotten the hang of it now. -Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry)

Cara terbaik untuk memangkasnya adalah membiarkannya tumbuh hingga berbuah dan kemudian menghukumnya dengan keras. Ia tidak melihat hal ini sebagai kekejaman, hanya sebagai pengasuhan yang baik, sama seperti memukuli anjing untuk melatihnya tidak memgotori lantai.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

Small minds don't grow, no matter how long you water them.

L'Homme a arrêté son évolution après avoir inventé la roue et l'air climatisé.

Reconocer los esfuerzos del mentee. Figura 9.9. Índice de un ciclo de coaching. Con la experiencia y la práctica, un ciclo de coaching no debería llevar mucho tiempo

Figura 8.3. Diálogo mentor/mentee (la kata de coaching) para enseñar la kata de mejora.