Quotes About Development

Todo el mundo estaba condicionado por el lugar donde nacía, confinado por sus propias creencias, pero al menos había que intentar que la mente se desarrollara más allá de dichos límites. De lo contrario, era como su uno viviera en una reserva, adorando a un puñado de falsos dioses.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Whether… civilization has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested," he wrote in 1795. "[Both] the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized.

Whether… civilization has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested," he wrote in 1795. "[Both] the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized." When

All new markets are inefficient at first

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.

The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

You become a winner because you're good at losing.

They say the best way to complain is to make things better.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.

Going out of your way to find uncomfortable situations isn't natural, but it's essential.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be.

The same is true for learning. True learning (as opposed to education) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort (the persistent feeling of incompetence as we get better at a skill).

Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I'll bet, make change.

Key fact: in 2003 pharmaceutical companies spent more on marketing and sales than they did on research and development. When it comes time to invest, it's pretty clear that spreading the ideas behind the medicine is more important than inventing the medicine itself.

For the rest of us, it's not about what you're born with, it's about what you do.

Every day you stay is a bad strategic decision for your career because every day you get better at something that isn't that useful—and you are another day behind others who are learning something more useful.