Quotes About Development

Everywhere there is much complaining about too few leaders. We have too few because most institutions are structured so that only a few—only one at the time—can emerge.

Listening, coupled with regular periods of reflection, are essential to the growth of the servant-leader.

There is very little sustained performance at the level of excellence—of any kind, anywhere—without continuous coaching.

Too much of the public concern for the quality of society is still devoted to caring directly for individuals and not enough attention goes to caring for institutions and the way they are structured. Structural flaws can cause harm to individuals; conversely, conceptually sound and ably administered institutions can build people and enrich society. All too often we seem to disregard this important influence that institutions can have on people.

A child can do nothing in his weakness. A man can do much.' 

There is no such thing as the person who at age thirty-five suddenly changes from being perfectly normal and erupts into totally evil, disruptive, murderous behavior. The behaviors that are precursors to murder have been present and developing in that person's life for a long, long time- since childhood.

When people hear 'flourishing,' they think of appreciation and good feelings. But growth and development does not always equal 'feeling good.' Our culture is not about maximizing the minutes you feel good at work. We don't define flourishing by sitting-around-the-campfire moments. We ask people to do seemingly impossible things.

Over time, I came to formulate my purpose as providing contexts for people to flourish .

Any honest person working in a DDO will tell you there are times she would like a holiday from the DDO experience, but after you've worked in one, an ordinary workplace becomes for many the nice place to visit and not the place where you want to live.

Success is a poor teacher

But if I go to sleep for eight hours, there will be a thousand years of cheela development before I wake up. That is like sleeping through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire!" "Set your alarm for six hours," she replied, pushing him down the passageway, "That will give you enough sleep to keep you going and maybe you will be awake again before they develop spaceflight.

It can be said that life's perhaps most fundamental dynamic is the attempt to move from a lower form of experience and consciousness to a higher (or deeper) level of consciousness.

It can be said that life's perhaps most fundamental dynamic is the attempt to move from a lower form of experience and consciousness to a higher (or deeper) level of consciousness, from a diffuse identity to a more consolidated and structured identity.

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Failure is a path, not a destination.

The future has taken root in the present.

Youth is wholly experimental.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for healthy social body until that need,among others, is fed.

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

We've created a safe, nonjudgemental environment that will leave your child ill-prepared for real-life.

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.