Quotes About Development

The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls—yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process. You are capable of great things on Tuesday, but on Wednesday you may slide backwards. This is normal. Growth occurs in spurts. You will lie dormant sometimes. Do not be discouraged. Think of it as resting.

An act of art needs time to mature. Judged early, it may be judged incorrectly.

In order to do something well, we must first be willing to do it badly.

La vida verdadera se vive cuando ocurren cambios diminutos». LEÓN TOLSTOI

Well, all I know is this—nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.

had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary

cases and stretched

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it?

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

There had been addition—and subtraction—in my life, but how much multiplication?

His experience of life had left him with the belief that getting through the first sixteen years or so was fundamentally a question of damage limitation.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got.

Later—well, what came later, came later.

Language too is a brake upon social change.

Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other -- into the people we should become.

When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now... What? Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other—into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean?

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a woman, I put away childish things.

It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.

No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.

Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children—some day they grow up.

Jay-Z told me once that one of his buddies from the Marcy Projects, in Brooklyn, said to him, Man, you've changed. And he replied, You're goddamn right. You act like I've been busting my ass to stay the same.