Quotes About Development

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

When you are playing Under-17 or U-19, the captain is of the same age as the rest of us. His knowledge was also as limited as the other players, so there was greater responsibility on the bowlers to understand themselves and their bowling, read the pitch, and set fields accordingly.

On the pitch if I could summarise 2018 in one word it would be progress.

I improved enormously, on and off the pitch, over that year at Swansea.

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways to try to get guys out. Trying to be creative.

You never stay the same - as a pitcher, as an athlete. It doesn't matter what you do, you never stay the same.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Disney usually doesn't do pitches for original ideas.

In terms of writing and developing, TV is very open because TV needs stories. They need new pitches, and they need new ideas. They don't always take the risk for new ideas, but they are certainly open to it. They can't have enough people come in and pitch to them. It doesn't matter how they look or what gender they are.

When I was in drama development, you hear anywhere between 500 to 600 pitches a season, and you do feel like you hit the wall. But I will never say, 'No, I won't hear that.'

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.

I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.