Quotes About Development

Feedback—both the act of giving it and taking it—is our first step in becoming smarter, more mindful about the connection between our environment and our behavior. Feedback teaches us to see our environment as a triggering mechanism. In some cases, the feedback itself is the trigger. Consider

the higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

W rezultacie subsydia prze?o?y?y si? na liczby, o których zrobi?o si? g?o?no. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD, Katolicka Agencja na rzecz Rozwoju, przeprowadzi?a w 2002 roku analiz?, która wykaza?a, ?e jedna krowa europejska otrzymuje od Unii oko?o 2,2 dolara na dzie? - 800 rocznie. Czyli ka?da z tych krów by?a bogatsza ni? 3,5 miliarda ludzi, po?owa ludno?ci ?wiata.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes toward the development of healthy attitudes in friendship, love, and, later, political life. Winnicott

Masters become masters because they practice in the little moments. Every pause, every moment to yourself is an opportunity to try again. Every tiny shift matters, and the more you practice, the better you will become. Besides, if not now, when?

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.

A must-read for new supervisors and managers, with lots of essential lessons and tips.

we know that repeated practice changes the brain

Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?

I thought I had one of your father, but it didn't develop." Tremaine nodded ruefully. "It's the silver nitrate in the film stock. He doesn't show up on it." Giaren stared at her blankly. "That was a joke," she added belatedly. "Oh." He sounded relieved.

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children's.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. —Haim Ginott

It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong to the communities that have created them. The irony is that while improvements such as buildings don't affect the underlying value of the land upon which they are located, they do have the ability to indirectly affect the properties that surround them.

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

Ahad Ha'am, for example, visited Palestine and observed that 'it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed'. He warned prophetically: 'If a time comes when our people in Palestine develop so that, in small or great measure, they push out the native inhabitants, these will not give up their place easily.