#development

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#anything #been #denied #development #discrimination

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#development #green #nature #age

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

— P.T. Barnum

#development #inspirational #art

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#flexibility #humorous #personal-development #personality #self

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest. ↗

— William Golding

#development #growth #rebirth #change

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#spiritual-development #change

If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. ↗

— Gary W. Moon

#spirituality #change

When you yet to do 100% of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a sweet spot. ↗

— David Heinemeier Hansson

#requirements #software-development #communication

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. ↗

— Dr. Henry Cloud

#character-defining #character-development #character-driven #character-quote #encourage

Energy holds our potential in patterns of intelligence. Self awareness can take us to these shimmering fields so we can manifest our choices ~ Jeanne McElvaney ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers