Quotes About Development

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

With every milestone that I've come across, there's always been a little note at the bottom that's said, 'Don't worry, there's another milestone coming up.'

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

Well, ever since I was six, I had a little notebook with coverages and notes on the mental aspect of a game, what it meant to be a leader and what type of attitude you had to have.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.

The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

Cam is incredible. Playing against guys like him and a great center like Ryan Kalil - I noticed him right away - is something that can only make me better.

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

I consider myself a novice film actor.