Quotes about Development

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

Your error is that you think this world is the reality. In truth, eternity is the reality and this life is but a shadow, a place to develop our character and grow more like Jesus.

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Your calling is more about who you are becoming than what you are doing.

To train is to commit to developing strategic habits that equip you to do the right thing in the moment.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.

In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.