Quotes About Development

The man who is mentally expanding, who is constantly growing larger and becoming broader, fuller, completer, does not age nearly as rapidly as the man who has ceased to grow.

Petersburg did not grow up like other towns. Neither commerce nor geopolitics can account for its development. Rather it was built as a work of art.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.

He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.

Human beings remain grubs all the lives.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

But always a giant, long before his body showed it.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed

Why is it called Dr. Device?" "When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device. M.D. Device." Ender still didn't understand. "M.D. The initials stand for Medical Doctor, too. M.D. Device, therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke." Ender didn't see what was funny about it.

All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be tested later, and punished if he hadn't learned it.

See these protrusions here, here, and here. That's tech.

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you

who had already taken humanity a step further than it had ever gone before.

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We'd all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted us all to bits and that would be that." "We didn't evolve from neanderthals," said Bean. "Well, it's a good thing we have that little fact squared away," said Petra.

Their young go through a helpless grub stage, too, which lasts longer than some of them think.

History is an omelet. The eggs are already broken.

When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.