Quotes About Development

What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

still sort of round and babyish while his

We knew he was taking an adventure, and we gave him the room. If we hadn't, he'd've found a way around it. Birds have to fledge. You can't stop it, no matter how much you want to keep them safe in the nest." Brian O'Dell The Hollow

more sitting areas. It went on and on before

ruthlessly pulled weeds and spent blossoms.

News was only news until something else came along.

Love doesn't change overnight. he corrected. It can be killed or it can be nurtured. That's up to the people involved.

transformation

years before.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Can't fix what used to be, only what is coming up.

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

In other words, the more differentiated, relatively developed societies have cultivated a comparatively high tolerance for highly individualised ways of further developing the existing art canon; this facilitates experimentation and the breaching of stale conventions and can thus help to enrich the artistic pleasures available through seeing and hearing.

T]he social canons and methods by which people build up instinct controls in their communal life are not brought into being deliberately; they evolve over long periods, blindly and without plan. Irregularities and contradictions in drive-controls, huge fluctuations in their severity or leniency, are therefore among the recurrent structural features of the civilizing process.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not—even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian—it's only a matter of time.

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Love is a skill you learn.

You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

An ancient truism had once decreed, Self improvement is masturbation..