My Development Quotes

#1. The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

George Clooney

#2. My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music ... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

Richard Clayderman

#3. My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Gregory Crewdson

#4. Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.

John C. Maxwell

#5. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.

Fiona Apple

#6. College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Claire Danes

#7. I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#8. Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Joseph Stiglitz

#9. Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

#10. Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Larry Bird

#11. Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

Martin Donovan

#12. Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Eric Flint

#13. My journey has been very nice and gradual and steady. And I've found that my development as a human is very much synchronized to my journey as an artist. It's felt very organic since the beginning. And every step allows me to grow a little more.

Jade Hassoune

#14. When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.

Graeme Smith

#15. Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.

Robert Duchnik

#16. I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Joe Wright

#17. Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

Timothy Ferriss

#18. My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Martha Plimpton

#19. I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

Juliet Marillier

#20. I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

King Krule

#21. My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

Tori Amos

#22. I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.

Hunter Hayes

#23. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Virginia Satir

#24. I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.

Kelsey Chow

#25. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Abigail Thomas

#26. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Hans Rosling

#27. Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

Kent Beck

#28. I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.

Prince Royce

#29. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#30. I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Joel Edgerton

#31. Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.

Sameh Elsayed

#32. Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.

Samantha Harris

#33. Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

Stella Atrium

#34. The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#35. It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Hosea Ballou

#36. During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#37. Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

Judith Hill

#38. As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.

Mary Fallin

#39. I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Edward Zigler

#40. I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.

Girma Woldegiorgis

#41. When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.

Michael Cera

#42. Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations; to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry.

M.F. Moonzajer

#43. The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#44. Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.

Frederick C. Beiser

#45. I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#46. Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,
but that it changes my perception and experience within them.
~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

#47. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Aaron Patzer

#48. This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us ... I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]

Mitch McConnell

#49. My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

Melanie Klein

#50. The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

John Baldacci

#51. I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.

Friedrich Wohler

#52. I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

Rose McIver

#53. I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Narendra Modi

#54. In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Robert B. Laughlin

#55. The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#56. In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Liu Bolin

#57. My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

Gustavo Dudamel

#58. I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

Les Wexner

#59. One time I completely thought I'd turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I'd suddenly go very quiet and not talk to anyone, stunned from the developments, being a werewolf and all.

Beth Orton

#60. You can be part of my dream ... you can be a big part or small part of it. But you cannot be my dream. and I cannot be your dream. You wannt to be the dream, find your own and I will be happy to be part of it. This is how grown ups think

Sameh Elsayed

#61. After all, I was choosing to walk in the front door of Morgan Stanley every day. I didn't have to. I could make a different choice. I had to stop throwing away my power by focusing on what was wrong and focus on ways, to use a baseball term, "to knock the cover off the ball.

Carla Harris

#62. My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Hugh Jackman

#63. My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

John Tyler Bonner

#64. The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

Anatoly Karpov

#65. Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Joseph Estrada

#66. For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

James Fallows

#67. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

Onyi Anyado

#68. I enjoy my crazy, thank you very much. I noticed a long time ago that those who value normalcy to the point of making someone else feel like shit for being different were assholes. I stopped caring about what people thought of me after that.

Alanea Alder

#69. My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

James Prescott Joule

#70. As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace.

Renae A. Sauter

#71. My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Alfred Jodl

#72. I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.

Philip Hoare

#73. Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become," I stopped in my tracks. This one philosophy was going to change my entire life.

Hal Elrod

#74. Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Alexis Denisof

#75. Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.

Criss Jami

#76. Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Sol LeWitt

#77. Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.

Drew Waters

#78. In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

Pierre Omidyar

#79. The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

Frederik Pohl

#80. My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

Henry Sy

#81. I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

Patricia Millett

#82. I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development

Sunday Adelaja

#83. What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

James A. Moore

#84. I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

Matt Mickiewicz

#85. What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the decision maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at Red - I'm in the trenches, in the product development, and I make the final call.

James Jannard

#86. I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.

Charles Petzold

#87. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

Nico Tortorella

#88. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.

Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

#89. In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.

Nkem Paul

#90. Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.

Narendra Modi

#91. In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Cory Booker

#92. I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

Ben Heppner

#93. I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

Jesse L. Martin

#94. I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Jim Yong Kim

#95. When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Larry Wall

#96. We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

Nick Lampson

#97. Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.

Pat Conroy

#98. When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.

John Toshack

#99. The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#100. I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

James Hillman