Development Quotes

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.

~ Criss Jami

Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.

~ E.m. Bounds

In existence, no human being is perfect. Every person has his own unique nature and individual field of expertise. Even those, whom we know as gods were unaware of the knowledge of science all their life. So, instead of paying attention to your shortcomings, concentrate on your talents and harness your potential.

~ Deep Trivedi

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

~ Criss Jami

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

~ Criss Jami

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

~ Criss Jami

I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

~ Criss Jami

Go wide, explore and learn new things. Something will surely have a kick for you

~ Mustafa Saifuddin

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

~ Joseph Campbell

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.

~ Criss Jami

Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action.

~ J.r. Rim

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

~ Criss Jami

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

~ Criss Jami

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

~ Seth Godin

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

~ Robin Hoyle

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

~ Criss Jami

For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

~ Criss Jami

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

~ Linda Fisher Thornton

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.

~ Raphael Zernoff

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

~ C.g. Jung

Most people can’t seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or “Middle Passage,” as it was called by European slavers, was notorious for the number of deaths incurred, averaging in the vicinity of 15-20 per cent. There were also numerous deaths in Africa between time of capture and time of embarkation, especially in cases where captives had to travel hundreds of miles to the coast. Most important of all (given that warfare was the principal means of obtaining captives) it is necessary to make some estimate of the number of people killed and injured so as to extract the millions who were taken alive and sound. The resultant figure would be many times the millions landed alive outside of Africa, and it is that figure which represents the number of Africans directly removed from the population and labor force of Africa because of the establishment of slave production by Europeans. Pg. 96

~ Walter Rodney

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

~ P.t. Barnum

The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.

~ Ryan Boudinot

Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.

~ James Pritchert

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

~ Rachael Bermingham

You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life is a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way each day.The thing is you head up straight. And when you make that choice. And when you decide turn your back to what's comfortable, and safe and what someone calls common sense. So, that's day one. From there, it's only get tougher. But make sure it is something you really want because the easy-way always be there to wash you away. Each step in life comes to a decision and take another. Now You are on your way but You fight against an opponent you can't see, but all you can feel among your heels. Feel him breathing down on your neck. That's you. Your fears, your doubts, your insecurity all end up as an enemy within. Remember life is royal battle between You and You.

~ Csaba Gabor-B.

Life is serious conflicts between the right way and the easy way each day.The thing is you head up straight. And when you make that choice. And when you decide turn your back to what's comfortable, and safe and what someone calls common sense. So, that's day one. From there, it's only get tougher. But make sure it is something you really want because the easy-way always be there to wash you away. Each step in life comes to a decision and take another. Now You are on your way but You fight against an opponent you can't see, but all you can feel among your heels. Feel him breathing down on your neck. That's you. Your fears, your doubts, your insecurity all end up as an enemy within. Remember life is royal battle between You and You.

~ Csaba Gabor-B.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One week after New Year's Day in 2006, I was on a flight to Aceh…As we walked down the steps on to the tarmac, the air felt humid and tropical, familiar and almost Balinese. It felt like going home. As the heavy air embraced me, my first inclination was to relax into it, but yet this was not home and my entire body remained on edge.

~ Alexandra Harris