Quotes About Development

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

You can't expect a coach to come in and just change everything overnight.

Evergreen songs are not made overnight. They are cultivated and nurtured and born out of creative conflicts.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

Losing the ability to talk to each other doesn't just happen overnight. Things like that develop gradually.

It's definitely not an overnight success. There has been a lot of work, effort and concentration to get where I am now. I've gone through different experiences, good and tough, to mould me into the player I am now.

Ring of Honor are really investing time and effort into the women's division and things have been great, especially being able to tour with them across the US, Canada, overseas.

I learned how to play the game without using my athletic abilities while playing overseas. When I got my NBA opportunity, it enhanced my fundamentals.

It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I'm happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.

If you've got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to get yourself out of their hair occasionally.

Growth is the rising tide that floats all boats. The period of growth is one in which people are naturally less change-resistant. It is therefore the optimal time to introduce any change. Specifically, changes that are not growth-related should be timed to occur during growth periods. This is not because they are strictly necessary then, but because they are more likely to be possible then. You need that advantage going up against Goliath.

Yes, technology is moving swiftly, but (the High-Tech Illusion again) most of what you're doing is not truly high-tech work. While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static. We still spend most of our time working on requirements and specification, the low-tech part of our work. Productivity within the software industry has improved by 3 to 5 percent a year, only marginally better than the steel or automobile industry.

Any so-called training experience that lacks the slow-down characteristic is an exercise in nonlearning.

Learning is limited by an organization's ability to keep its people.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.