Quotes About Development

Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.

We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.

It all happens in a matter of seconds: the sphere, so precise at the start, emerges, perfectly round, like an egg yolk that then slips from its shell.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.