Quotes About Development

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line.

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts

A great event is taking place here, a great event in the world's destiny. It is taking place without injury or injustice to anyone; it is transforming waste places into fertile; it is planting trees and developing agriculture in desert lands; it is making for an increase in wealth and of cultivation; it is making two blades of grass from where one grew before.

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

When I discipline, I am helping my people, teaching them and coaching them, to be the best they can be. When I see a gap between how they are performing and how they should be performing, I look at it as an opportunity to help them raise their game. It's another opportunity to serve them.

simply ask five open-ended questions which they know in advance. Question one, what is going well? Two, what is not going well? Three, what are you doing to improve as a leader? Four, what are you doing to improve the organization? And, five, what can I do to help?

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

You can't instantly reap what you sow today, it does not work like instant grits, no matter what you sow in life it takes time to grow and be ready for harvest

If I am at the same place, I was last year in regards to self-improvement, goals etc. I will take my own self back behind the wood shed and have a come to Jesus session as that is just unacceptable period!

As you go if you are like me and want to further hone in on what you already know from your life while learning new tricks and improving your craft that is where you will become even more successful in anything you do

Sowing seeds in all areas of your life is an ongoing never-ending process sow seeds every day and sow twice as much seeds during your seasons of harvest

Age is not a factor only one's maturity level

Failure is a pre requisite to success

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience." – James D. Wilson

I love to compound interest in everything I do in life in all ways not just monetary activities but in all ways

Failure is a pre requisite to success you cannot be successful for the long haul if you bypass the failure requirement

Beginners luck or what not in your beginning does not equal long term success only short term

Failing is needed in order to become highly successful, fail often and early before taking your training wheels off.

You have to find your discipline to bake your first cake, while knowing that you will table real estate and other type cakes you want to bake in your life because you are not yet at that level