Quotes About Development

My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting.

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

That's nuts," Niamh said. "That's evolution

His progress was more lateral than forward.

But imagine you're a tapeworm, and then suddenly you're Goethe. It's like that.

The goal shouldn't be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious—to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.

Whether they are up to our standards or not, the fact remains: We need more crew.

Any parent who would force a two-year-old to stare at a computer when the kid would rather do something else deserves the rough side of a moving chainsaw blade.

In my opinion, the goal of parenthood is to teach your kid how to explore the world and find himself or herself in it; this naturally requires that the focus is on the kid, and not the parent. The parent who is leaping in and mud-wrestling a teacher over a "B" or bribing the local daycare center staff to get their kid in is probably not focused on what the kid needs so much as what the parent thinks he needs to prove.

comes immediately after.

Rather than focusing on attracting and retaining talent, as they do today, institutional leaders must shift their attention to accessing and developing talent.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

the world of commerce is restless; it's like a hungry child that keeps growing and never quite grows up

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, You can't make a race horse of a pig. Samuel replies, No, but you can make a very fast pig.

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.

Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.