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Quotes About Development

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parents, they'll screw you up every time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My whole life is about for­get­ting. It's my most valu­able job skill.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La autoperfección es simple masturbación, sólo la autodestrucción conlleva evolución
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Consider that your soul is dropped in as an ugly rock, some raw material or a natural resource, crude oil, mineral ore. And all conflict and pain is just the abrasive that rubs us, polishes our souls, refines us, teaches and finishes us over lifetime after lifetime.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the parent who never wants you to really grow up.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Flattery is addictive. Convince others they're special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self-worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre eigene Art von Intelligenz und Humor, aber kaum kriegen sie ihre erste Erektion, verlieren sie den Verstand und laufen die nächsten sechzig Jahre als komplett Schwachsinnige durch die Welt. Für beide Geschlechter ist die Pubertät so etwas wie eine Eiszeit der Dummheit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Picture a tumbler used to polish rocks: A rolling drum filled with water and sand. Consider that your soul is dropped in as an ugly rock, some raw material or a natural resource, crude oil, mineral ore. And all conflict and pain is just the abrasive that rubs us, polishes our souls, refines us
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How what looks cool later on always looks crazy at first. "If numbers could explain the physical world, words would explain the invisible one.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All under the pretense of military application." He pouts. "No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it's changed our culture.
~ Chuck Wendig
The beginning's easy because it's like -- BOOM, some shit just happened. The ending's easy because -- POW, all the shit that happened just lead to this.
~ Chuck Wendig
I have a distaste for the term "supporting characters." It's not that it's a bad term, exactly, but it does call to mind a jockstrap or a bra—something created only to lift and support something else, that's purely architectural and not alive with that precious spark of life we assume characters should have.
~ Chuck Wendig
If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
~ Cicero
When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.
~ Cintra Wilson
Trump revealed his powerful secret to conquering financial adversity once, in a meeting to promote another one of his signature, view-eating housing developments: "You know," he said, "what New York really needs—besides this project—is to reduce its debt. And let me tell you—this is something I know—it's easy! You just don't pay!" America
~ Cintra Wilson
A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.
~ Claire Colebrook