Quotes About Development

The command "Be ye perfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Religion as a historical human practice was therefore not of divine origin, and its developments and activities had to be of an entirely human origin.

Things good and bad will happen to us, of course. But what our life amounts to, at least for those who reach full age, is largely, if not entirely, a matter of what we become within.

So my fifth point is this: spiritual formation is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual takes on the quality or character of Jesus himself.

spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.

the focus of spiritual formation is the formation of our spirit.

What God gets out of our lives—and, indeed, what we get out of our lives—is simply the person we become. It

The reluctant leader doesn't merely give accolades to others. It is her true joy to see others awaken to their potential and exceed their greatest dreams. It is the hope of every good teacher to have students who take their work further than the teacher was able to do. To be surpassed is the ideal. To be replaced is the goal, not a sign of failure.

shortly after that, their brains began to grow! The human

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn.

Consider this!" Edmond declared. "It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!

between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.

Cambrian Explosion of the Technium. New

Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes." Langdon nodded. "I'm

If the world's finest fighting force assigns only its best people to a three-year challenge in recruiting, and then rewards them afterwards with promotion, why shouldn't corporate America make HR a similar rite of passage for its most promising managers?

It's the training, not the screening, that creates Marine Corps leaders of all ranks.

Every drill instructor knows that leadership is something to be cultivated and that virtually every recruit has the potential.