Quotes about Development

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Today, the issue isn't quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.

It's our past problems that prepare us for future opportunities. So someday we may be as grateful for the bad things as the good things because the bad things helped prepare us for the good things.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

We tend to view the goal as the goal, but in God's economy, the process is the goal. It's not about what we're doing at all; it's about who we're becoming in the process.

Exponential progression is compound doubling. Four times four equals sixteen.