Quotes About Development

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

All of us, as much as we like to think that we're evolved human beings, we're all still children deep down.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

We need a concept of development to meet human needs.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

As humans, we are constantly learning and changing and evolving, and I think that is so beautiful.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

You have to be humble and learn from the players around you.

Obviously you have to take it the right way, keep your head down, be humble. But I think if you're in an environment where you're challenging yourself, you're only going to improve. So that's honestly what I tried to do when I went to Europe.

You see a lot of people in sports who need to be humbled first to become who they are.

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.