Quotes About Development

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Modern technology gives us surprising glimpses into human development. It helps us plan for and celebrate new life.

As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

Some love comes like a wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.

But a father is more than a person, he's in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today's you isn't the same as yesterday's you and won't be the same as tomorrow's you. But Walter also thinks that there's a real perfect you that you're always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.

He ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.

Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward.

And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways.

Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart

but embracing or resisting are optional, and metamorphosis inevitable.

She's smiling that smile they smile before they grow bosoms.