Quotes About Development

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

Leadership Puzzle solved. One more time, you need to focus on processes, first making them efficient, then spending time on the people and personalities

All the ingredients were there: mechanization, innovation, property rights, and capital.

The central argument of this book is that financial innovations emerged to solve economic problems of time and geography, but they inevitably engendered new

Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

developing compassion: There is a developmental process for cultivating compassion for others. . . . The first step is knowledge. . . . Then you need to constantly reflect and internalize this knowledge . . . to the point where it will become a conviction. It becomes integrated into your state of mind. . . . Then you get to a point where it becomes spontaneous. (The Dalai Lama & Ekman, 2008, pp.

A few thousand Europeans, no matter how inventive their work in chemicals, or metallurgy, could not create an Industrial Revolution unless they could inspire (or borrow, or even steal) from one another;

We know poor and middle class children exhibit certain differences in styles of talking and thinking, but we do not know yet why or how these differences occur.

A basic rule of history is that the inevitable eventually happens.

Changing the mindset of your men is not a "one-off" event. It must start immediately and continue throughout training. One part of this is an ongoing education program to teach troops about the basics of light infantry. Such an education program may consist of guided professional reading with linked discussions, tactical decision games, sand-table exercises, and tactical exercises without troops.

evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

In the first several months of life, a baby's wants are a baby's needs.