Quotes About Development

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.