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Quotes About Development

one moves step by step and one must keep moving.
~ Ayn Rand
A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
~ Ayn Rand
Life is growth; not to move forward, is to fall backward; life remains life, only so long as it advances.
~ Ayn Rand
In living entities, nature does not permit stillness: when one ceases to grow, one proceeds to disintegrate—in the mental realm no less than in the physical.
~ Ayn Rand
He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.
~ Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
No formal criterion or 'definition' should obscure the fact that the early state did not emerge full blown and in a clear-cut form. Its formation was a process rather than a one-time event, which regularly took generations and centuries to unfold.
~ Azar Gat
It has been found that so called tomboy behavior in girls correlated closely with higher levels of testosterone. On the other side, low testosterone levels in males result in unassertive and 'feminine' behavior, whereas the highest levels of testosterone to which men are exposed during adolescence result in extra aggressiveness.
~ Azar Gat
Rather than being discovered or revealed, morality is a historically developing human creation in the service of social needs.
~ Azar Gat
Most people have a way of radiating their potential – not just what they are, but what they could become.
~ Azar Nafisi
things will never stay the same.
~ Azar Nafisi
Norma looked at him, puzzled. Someone else to do the mathematics? Of course! Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and adjusted his white robe. You're an *idea* person, like me. We want you to develop concepts, not bother with full-fledged implementation. You should not waste time performing tedious arithmetic. Any halfway-trained person can do that. It's what slaves are for.
~ B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Something leads to something else
~ Baldacci, David
Negara yang tidak bisa mengendalikan sumber energinya, tidak bisa mengendalikan masa depannya.
~ Barack Obama
I realized that abiding by his rules would cost me little, but to him, it would mean a lot. I recognized that sometimes he really did have a point, and in that insisting on getting my own way all the time without regard to his feelings or needs, I was in some way diminishing myself. ...In one form or another, it is what we all must go through in order to grow up.
~ Barack Obama
Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future.
~ Barack Obama
One thing other nations can learn from Hawaii, he says, is the willingness of races to work together toward common development, something he has found whites elsewhere too often unwilling to do. I
~ Barack Obama
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learnings possible.
~ Barack Obama
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.
~ Barack Obama
that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress.
~ Barack Obama
The future is won by those who build and not destroy.
~ Barack Obama
Ben informed me that those lines were written by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Sa'adi, one of the most beloved figures in Iranian culture. We found this ironic, given how much of my time at UNGA was devoted to trying to curb Iran's development of nuclear weapons.
~ Barack Obama
role development projects would
~ Barack Obama
new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor