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Quotes About Development

I love the process of learning a thing. It's doing a thing I find so boring.
~ Laurie Colwin
Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example.
~ Laurie Colwin
You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
In the spring of fifth grade, the boob fairy arrived with her wand and smacked Cassie wicked hard.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I
~ Lawrence Block
Don and I took Bill Coons and made a writer out of him.
~ Lawrence Block
The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their own nature
~ Lawrence Durrell
I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.
~ Usher
Nothing big ever came from being small.
~ William J. Clinton
I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
~ John F. Kerry
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
~ Jerome Bruner
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
~ William S. Burroughs
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
~ Ken Blanchard
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
~ Herbert Hoover
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
~ Frederik Pohl
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
~ Jacques Monod
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.
~ Theobald Smith
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
~ Carl Linnaeus
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
~ Reginald Fessenden
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
~ Kenny Marchant
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
~ Max Weber
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
~ Thomas W. Moore