Quotes About Development

Love is not something you sow and reap instantly, you have to watch it grow and become stronger.

Love at first sight would be like a baby being born full grown. Only possible to be grown over time.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Journaling at the Beginner's Stage

she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.

Other primates get on with their own reproduction relatively soon after weaning, with gorillas having their first baby just seven or so years later.

Gaining freedom a little bit at a time is a biblical principle.

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; You only can act yourself into new ways of thinking.

It takes much time and patience to perfect this practice, so do not be discouraged by failure. This habit is only developed with much difficulty. Yet when it is achieved, how great will be your joy!

People don't get better without follow-up. So let's get better at following up with our people.

going backwards is not about creating change. It's about understanding.

Improvement is hard. If it were easy, we'd already be better.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

If she wants to be a great leader, she will need to "make peace" with watching what she says and observing how she acts—for the rest of her career.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.

change is not a one-way street.

All other things being equal, your people skills (or lack of them) become more pronounced the higher up you go. In fact, even when all other things are not equal, your people skills often make the difference in how high you go.

As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.

We can always get better at something, even if it's just preserving the progress we've made. I

Marshall Goldsmith