Development Quotes

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Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence,… — Sheldon B. Kopp
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on… — Joseph Conrad
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not… — Muhammad Yunus
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their… — Rabindranath Tagore
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All… — Daniel Suarez
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the… — Wendell Berry
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay
The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the… — Gary Chapman
I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger. — Maria V. Snyder
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has… — Albert Einstein
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;… — Salman Rushdie
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development… — Norman Vincent Peale
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,… — Bill Bryson

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