Quotes About Development

Try to remember with description that you must never just let it lie there; nothing in your story should ever be static unless you have a very good reason indeed for keeping your reader still; the essence of the story is motion.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

There are no mistakes

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

If children could, if adults knew.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

The superego is, however, not simply a residue of the earliest object-choices of the id; it also represents an energetic reaction-formation against those choices.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.

We know that the first step towards attaining intellectual mastery of our environment is to discover generalizations, rules and laws which bring order into chaos. In doing this we simplify the world of phenomena; but we cannot avoid falsifying it, especially if we are dealing with the process of development and change. What we are concerned with is discerning a qualitative alteration, and as a rule in doing so we neglect, at any rate to begin with, a quantitative factor.

En cuanto a las necesidades religiosas, considero irrefutable su derivación del desamparo infantil y de la nostalgia por el padre

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

The little child is above all shameless, and during its early years it evinces definite pleasure in displaying its body and especially its sexual organs. A counterpart to this desire which is to be considered as perverse, the curiosity to see other persons' genitals, probably appears first in the later years of childhood when the hindrance of the feeling of shame has already reached a certain development.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.

So long as we trace the development from its final outcome backwards, the chain of events appears continuous, and we feel we have gained an insight which is completely satisfactory or even exhaustive. But if we proceed in the reverse way, if we start from the premises inferred from the analysis and try to follow these up to the final results, then we no longer get the impression of an inevitable sequence of events which could not have otherwise been determined.

An analytic treatment demands from both doctor and patient the accomplishment of serious work, which is employed in lifting internal resistances. Through the overcoming of these resistances the patient's mental life is permanently changed, is raised to a higher level of development and remains protected against fresh possibilities of falling ill.