Quotes About Development

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Academicians get nowhere.

If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on 'Nurse Jackie' that... she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.

I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.