Quotes About Development

turn the story into a novel, and we agreed because the characters we'd created for that short story were still hanging around our brains. They had more to say.

Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

If you stop training and learning you start sinking. Nobody can float: You're either rising or sinking. It's been this way for a thousand years. The only difference is that you can rise, or you'll sink, a whole lot faster now.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Like a muscle, your creative abilities will grow and strengthen with practice.

Third Generation war, also a product of World War I, was developed by the German Army and is commonly known as blitzkrieg, or maneuver warfare.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

The road to success is through constant blundering. —COLONEL FRANCIS W. PARKER

Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

interpreting to [ourselves] the directions of [our] lives, [our] pasts, presents, and futures. Small details and big developments. [We are] attaining clarity about [our] own hearts. . .arriving at self-knowledge as well as knowledge of the world. [Our] goals for work, for family life, and for personal development naturally [grow] out of this knowledge, as a powerful by-product of [our] habits of articulation.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.  The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

steep learning curve means you're climbing faster. And the steepest learning curves come right away.