Quotes About Development

Tout concourt à I'histoire, tout est I'histoire, meme les romans qui semblent ne se rattacher en rien aux situations politiques qui les voient eclore.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I could see that, over the years, my babies would slowly transform into selfish-dick babies, then selfish-dick toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults, with me all that time skulking around like some unclean suspect uncle.

I teach "The Singers" to suggest to my students how little choice we have about what kind of writer we'll turn out to be.

It was like the baby was demanding, with its eyes: Hurry up, tell me what all this shit is, so I can master it, open a few shops.

that's really all a story is: a series of things that happen in sequence, in which we can discern a pattern of causality.

We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.

In the first pulse of a story, the writer is like a juggler, throwing bowling pins into the air. The rest of the story is the catching of those pins. At any point in the story, certain pins are up there and we can feel them. We'd better feel them. If not, the story has nothing out of which to make its meaning.

What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story.

A story means, at the highest level, not by what it concludes but by how it proceeds.

What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation.

If you don't have a challenge, find one

It may be—I will argue so—that communication outward is only a secondary, socially stimulated phase in the acquisition of language. Speaking to oneself would be the primary function (considered by L. S. Vygotsky in the early 1930s, this profoundly suggestive hypothesis has received little serious examination since).

El error es el punto de partida de la creación.

See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

I understand small business growth. I was one.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere.

I have gone on beginning...

the composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.

My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.

Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.

We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.