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Quotes About Development

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
~ Aeschylus
Time refines all things that age with time.
~ Aeschylus
But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
When I crossed the street, according to my mother, I still had to hold someone's hand. At ten, I would be able to cross streets unhanded. I'd held on to Joseph's many times before, for many years, but holding his was like holding a plant, and the disappointment of fingers that didn't grasp back was so acute that at some point I'd opted to take his forearm instead.
~ Aimee Bender
our changes in height remained unmarked on the door frames, so we grew up tall on our own without proof
~ Aimee Bender
If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
~ Ajahn Chah
Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.
~ Ake Edwardson
I took the initiative in creating the Internet
~ Al Gore
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
~ Alain de Botton
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
~ Alain de Botton
The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.
~ Alain de Botton
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.
~ Alain de Botton
We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired
~ Alain de Botton
Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó ?? h?c không ??.
~ Alain de Botton
Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó Ä'ã h?c không ??.
~ Alain de Botton
The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.
~ Alain de Botton
Children are always described from a third-person perspective ("Isn't Chloe a cute/ugly/intelligent/stupid kid?") before they gain the ability to influence their own definitions. Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others. But the struggle against distortion continues beyond childhood.
~ Alain de Botton
To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.
~ Alain de Botton
the obstacle to our good development is not usually arrogance, but a lack of confidence.
~ Alain de Botton
And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.
~ Alan Bennett
when the student is ready, the teacher appears
~ Alan Cohen
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information, but unlearning old limits.
~ Alan Cohen
What's more, the only available economic upside comes from making your product or service more desirable by improving its quality, and you can't do that by reducing the money you spend designing or programming
~ Alan Cooper
Programmers become so familiar with code reuse that they often copy existing techniques even when they aren't actually copying code.
~ Alan Cooper