Quotes About Development

will do the best I am capable of doing today to bring out my best tomorrow.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

When You Start Having All the Right Answers, You Will Stop Asking All the Right Questions. The path to success lies in the realization that there is always more to learn.

I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it's often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right...

any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts

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Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.

Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take these capacities for granted and don't think to develop them systematically in the service of self-understanding and wisdom. Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

Bhavana translates as "development through mental training." To me, this strikes the mark; meditation really is about human development.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.