Quotes About Development

Ability is inborn, but only intense study brings out its potential. It takes endurance.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

Remember our definition of a winning attitude: a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better.

The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.

Yep. Quentin held him back in kindergarten and again in seventh grade so he'd have two extra years to get bigger. He did. Lots of dads do that now. Soon

Studies suggest that the part of a boy's brain that controls judgment does not fully develop until his mid-twenties. And that gap between mind and body – a body that could suddenly do what a man could do and a mind that still thought like a boy – could put his son's future in jeopardy. Throughout the history of man, testosterone and stupidity had never joined together to produce a good result. Frank wondered if he could protect his son from himself. He

What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Transtheoretical Model of Change

People's early experiences shape how crazy or how sane they become.

Fail #1: Coddling

When people have mentors like this, they grow up feeling safe and confident. As a result, they develop a strong core.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. —JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST

Most breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

The smarter you make the people who work for you look, the smarter you are going to look as a manager.

Highway building, in their scheme, was a form of social and economic therapy.

Almost everywhere, the new urban expressways destroyed wide swaths of existing housing and dislocated people by the tens of thousands.

It was quite obvious that neighborhoods and communities would be destroyed and people uprooted, but this was thought to be an acceptable cost of creating new transportation routes and facilitating urban economic development.

Put another way, road engineers had relied on the supposedly apolitical principles of highway building as their major form of political expression.

when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.

you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but

In Python, practicality often beats aesthetics.

Because shelves are Python objects containing Python objects, we can process them with normal Python syntax and development modes. Here, the interactive prompt effectively becomes a database client:

Think about it: because we copied the original version, if we ever have to change the way raises are given (and we probably will), we'll have to change the code in two places, not one. Although this is a small and artificial example, it's also representative of a universal issue — anytime you're tempted to program by copying code this way, you probably want to look for a better approach.