Quotes About Development

You and I must teach those we mentor that our lives are holy before God and that developing a lifestyle of worship is critical to maintaining the purity of our influence.

As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.

The most common reason why nations fail today is because they have extractive institutions.

A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state. This is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—and all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction.

Rich nations are rich largely because they managed to develop inclusive institutions at some point during the past three hundred years. These institutions have persisted through a process of virtuous circles. Even if inclusive only in a limited sense to begin with, and sometimes fragile, they generated dynamics that would create a process of positive feedback, gradually increasing their inclusiveness.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

After the revolution, comes other people.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

The world had changed since place names were invented.

I don't like it, but as they say you can't make chickens without breaking eggs." The

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.

Grande Ideia: Formadores de Heróis sabem que se focarmos somente na adição, nunca chegaremos à multiplicação.

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

Create an environment in which your people want to train and be inoculated. Do not kill your warriors. Do not send losers off the training site. Do not talk trash about your students. Punish in private, praise in public.

Once ducklings reach maturity, they sometimes fairly abruptly stop tracking the person they have imprinted on and integrate with other ducks.

In only 8 to 12 weeks, a newly hatched duckling is transformed into a young adult.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Requiring nothing of a child gives them no opportunity for failure or success.