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Quotes About Development

The domain of leaders is the future. The work of leaders is change. The most significant contribution leaders make is not to today's bottom line; it is to the long-term development of people and institutions so they can adapt, change, prosper, and grow.
~ James M. Kouzes
You have to believe, and you have to develop the skills to transmit your belief. It's your passion that brings the vision to life. If you're going to lead, you have to recognize that your enthusiasm and expressiveness are among your strongest allies in your efforts to generate commitment in others. Don't underestimate your talents.
~ James M. Kouzes
Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.
~ James M. Kouzes
God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.
~ James MacDonald
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~ James Madison
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~ James Madison
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.
~ James Marston Fitch
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
~ James McBride
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
~ James Meade
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
~ James Monroe
That from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
~ James Morrow
A story is a narrative of consequential events involving worthy human characters who change as a result of those events. THE
~ James N. Frey
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
~ James Naismith
Any culture that continues to influence our vision continues to grow in the very exercise of that influence.
~ James P Carse
Education leads toward a continuing self discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition.
~ James P Carse
Nobody is born a Bolshevik. It has to be learned. And it cannot be learned solely from books either. It is learned, over a long time, by a combination of field work, struggle, personal sacrifices, tests, study, and discussion. The making of a Bolshevik is a long, drawn-out process. But in compensation, when you get a Bolshevik, you have got something. When you get enough of them you can do anything you want to do, including making a revolution.
~ James P. Cannon
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children. The character of one's parenting, if it is genuinely dramatic, must be constantly altered from within as the children change from within. So, too, with teaching, or working with, or loving each other.
~ James P. Carse
Solo ciò che cambia può continuare.
~ James P. Carse
Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.
~ James P. Carse
Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
~ James Paul Gee
We don't come smart out of the box.
~ James Paul Gee
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
~ James R. Angell
Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
~ James R. Cook
Money could never have originated as paper.
~ James R. Cook