Quotes About Development

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

God always wants us to be growing.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.