Quotes about Development
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
— John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
— John Wooden
I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It
— John Wooden
Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.
— John Wooden
when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.
— John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden
— John Wooden
And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.
— John Wooden
I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.
— John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
— John Wooden
I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
— John Wooden
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
— Brigham Young