Quotes About Development

Make as many small, positive changes as you can. Build up that change account. Then, if you negotiate a big change and it goes badly, you will have some resources in the change bank to draw from.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

You can not become successful, until you develop into the person who can."

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

While a fixation on results is certainly unhealthy, short-term goals can be useful developmental tools if they are balanced within a nurturing long-term philosophy.

the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.

Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt

It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher's desk instead of learning how to do the math.

Each loss was a lesson, each win a thrill. Every day pieces of the puzzle fell together. Whenever

growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

what I'm best at is not Tai Chi, and it's not chess. What I'm best at is the art of learning.

to incrementally condense the external manifestation of the technique, while keeping true to its essence. Over time, expansiveness decreases, while potency increases. I call this method 'making smaller circles.

In all disciplines, there are times when a performer is ready for action, and times when he or she is soft, in flux, broken-down or in a period of growth.

Whenever there was a concept or learning technique that I related to in a manner too abstract to convey, I forced myself to break it down into the incremental steps with which I got there.

Growth comes at the point of resistance.

the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—

Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. *

Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt, but I didn't mind.

I was unhindered by internal conflict—a state of being that I have come to see as fundamental to the learning process.

The real art in learning takes place as we move beyond proficiency, when our work becomes an expression of our essence.

Carl Jung wrote that nothing affects children more than the unlived lives of their parents.

Technology would never advance past primal fear. It would never trump human instinct.