Quotes About Development

The choice of the word "progress" is deliberate. It represents movement toward a goal or aspiration.

School is one of the things that children might hire to do the job. But the job is that children need to feel successful—every

The number of words spoken to a child had a strong correlation between the number of words that they heard in their first thirty months and their performance on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests as they got older.

There is no evidence that any of the leaders in developing and adopting sustaining technologies developed a discernible competitive advantage over the followers

important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it's time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

Every successful product or service, either explicitly or implicitly, was structured around a job to be done. Addressing a job is the causal mechanism behind a purchase. If someone develops a product that is interesting, but which doesn't intuitively map in customers' minds on a job that they are trying to do, that product will struggle to succeed

What are all the experiences and problems that I have to learn about and master so that what comes out at the other end is somebody who is ready and capable of becoming a successful CEO?

When we so heavily focus on providing our children with resources, we need to ask ourselves a new set of questions: Has my child developed the skill to develop better skills? The knowledge to develop deeper knowledge? The experience to learn from his experiences?

We know that people who fail in their jobs often do so not because they are inherently incapable of succeeding, but because their experiences have not prepared them for the challenges of that job—in other words, they've taken the wrong "courses.

the hallmark of a great manager is the ability to identify the right person for the right job, and to train his or her employees so that they have the capabilities to succeed at the jobs they are given.

They planned to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for a disruptive technology. They found that their markets generally coalesced through an iterative process of trial, learning, and trial again.

Is this work meaningful to me? Is this job going to give me a chance to develop? Am I going to learn new things? Will I have an opportunity for recognition and achievement? Am I going to be given responsibility? These are the things that will truly motivate you. Once you get this right, the more measurable aspects of your job will fade in importance

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon

Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

The signs had been there since he could walk, and he perfected the more distasteful aspects of his personality as he lurched into manhood and assumed his responsibilities.

In time the saplings and hedges on the perimeter would provide shade and character; now they spoke of fine intentions.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

a, pour chacun de nous, de certains parallélismes entre notre intelligence, nos moeurs et notre caractère, qui se développent sans discontinuité, et ne se rompent qu'aux grandes perturbations de la vie.

Sometimes you'll hear, 'People don't change.' This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: 'People don't change.' It says 'don't,' not 'can't.' (316)

A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism.