Quotes about Development

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.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.