Quotes About Development

When you're trying to expand your business, it's about real estate in the stores.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

My goal is to continue to build Marley Coffee distribution and add our own stand-alone retail stores.

Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.

The constant expansion of our malls and stores are proof of the fact that our holistic approach to development benefits not just us but also all the communities in which we operate.

For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.

Milk production is one of India's great success stories.

I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?

I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.