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Quotes About Development

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.
~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.
~ Jim Gaffigan
In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.
~ A.G. Phillips
The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being.
~ Vinicius Montgomery
It is important to correct bad behavior one toe at a time.
~ Gasmaskman
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
~ Jane Gardam
Hm. Didn't you use to be a lot smaller?""Yes, " said Jinx. "Because I used to be six.
~ Sage Blackwood, Jinx
Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.
~ Mary Chase, Harvey
Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
~ Quinn Anderson
Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.
~ Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
~ Ai Weiwei
The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.
~ Ernesto Sirolli
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
~ Walt Disney
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
~ Cyril Connolly
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
~ Sheila Ballantyne
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
~ Northrop Frye
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
~ Philip José Farmer
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
~ Padraic Colum
I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
~ Josephine Jacobsen
The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.
~ John Kao
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
~ Barbara Hambly