Quotes About Development

The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.

When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves

The world is a grand moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take exercise so as to become stronger and stronger spiritually.

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

High quality programs require and foster a norm of continuous teaching improvement.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden

To tell a story, you have to set up your characters, introduce the dramatic premise (what the story is about) and the dramatic situation (the circumstances surrounding the action), create obstacles for your characters to confront and overcome, then resolve the story.

A Plot Point is defined as any incident, episode, or event that hooks into the action and spins it around in another direction—

they should write their brains out. If they get a deal, they should write the assignment, then take time off to write something on spec, then write an assignment, then write on spec. You have a lot more control over a spec script that becomes a hot script. It can put you on the A list faster than waiting four years to get something developed.

cuando se trata de talento: cuanto más ayude usted a las personas a ser mejores, más se ayudan ellas entre sí a ser mejores.

Yes, superbosses are willing to advance people, even when protégés don't think they're ready. Yes, they will purposefully step back so their protégés can shine. Yes, they will organize their entire enterprise so that informal, apprenticeship-style learning can take place. But they will ultimately push protégés to step up and take responsibility for their own development by cultivating an everyday focus on learning and growth.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

We think the future lies ahead, but its seed is contained in the present. There is no sharp break between the two: the lie we tell today can send us sprawling a year from now; the way we treat our infant determines the way he treats us when he reaches adolescence.

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Coping with competition requires understanding that winning and losing are always temporary occurrences. Children who learn to lose without being devastated and use failure experiences to grow will begin to achieve in the classroom and in society.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

Published April, 1920

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.