Quotes About Development

What has been is no more. Change has come.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

A child born with a weak eye can put a patch over the strong eye and train the weak eye to do what the strong eye already can.

Les enfants absorbent notre vie, et la désagrègent. Les enfants nous entraînent au désastre, c'est une loi.

If I weren't in a constant state of metamorphosis, I'd have to battle the gloom that comes with endings because I refuse to wind down in some female fit of the vapors.

Una vez que nos abrimos al cambio, la primera acción crea un apetito por más cambio.

Use every trial that comes to you as an opportunity to improve yourself.

To re-create the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the sort we'd had at Chouinard Equipment, we broke the line into eight categories and hired eight product czars to manage them. Each was responsible for his or her own product development, marketing, inventory, quality control, and coordination with the three sales channels—wholesale, mail order, and retail.

Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.

Looking back now, I see that we made all the classic mistakes of a growing company.

Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.

While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.

kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.

She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.

Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things!...

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.