Quotes About Development

Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.

Do all brilliant ideas seem brilliant from the very beginning, or do they seem far-fetched until they come into clearer focus?

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Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.

But those who try, know that strength and knowledge come with doing.

He said you must always step forward from where you stand.

Siblings, more than parents, more than teachers and friends and lovers and pets, shape the people we are.

Fear comes from ego; it's not a soul-level thing. And there's a lot of reasons for humans to have fear: a fear of not being good enough, a fear of not being able to do something well. Fear helps to develop ego, and ego helps to develop fear. They go in a circle. Fear usually is an absence of connection to spirit—not

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

We need a process," he says. "That's obvious. It's too bad that the five-step process that we developed turned out to be false. No . . . Wait a minute Alex, that's not the case. At the end, the problem was not wandering bottlenecks. It was insufficient protection for the existing bottlenecks. Maybe we can use that five-step process?

There is an explanation to these companies' failure to implement Lean; an explanation that is apparent to any objective observer of a company like Hitachi Tool Engineering. The failure is due to the fundamental difference in the production environments. When Taiichi Ohno developed TPS, he didn't do it in the abstract; he developed it for his company. It is no wonder that the powerful application that Ohno developed might not work in fundamentally different production environments.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.

I would have the government educate the people absolutely, and then give room for the individual to develop himself into life freely. Nothing can be more hateful to me than this communist idea of quenching individualities in the mass.

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

He was paying the immemorial price of apprenticeship: things concealed, games of trust.

I don't think you'll get much argument that my personality could use amending.

There was no grand design behind any of it: just a series of fumbling attempts to do something.

Plans. I thought about plans. Plants and plants.

It was a beginning. He was a seed. He could grow.

One of the problems with AIs grown from personality seeds is that sometimes they're just as reactive and weird as any human.

She was continuing to develop and evolve. All she had ever needed was the resources to enrich herself, and the space in which to grow. She was so brave and so slight-and, okay, so glittery-that my eyes stung a little from looking at her.