Linkmeyer Development Quotes & Sayings

Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar's immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the caterpillar's immune system fails and its body dissolves into a nutritive soup which the new cells recycle into their developing butterfly.

The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among those engaged in them. — Elisabet Sahtouris

It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes. — George R R Martin

Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life. — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. — Douglas Adams

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable. — Jimmy Cliff

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

One man's meat is another man's poison,' he — D.H. Lawrence

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is. — Moira Kelly

Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children. — Bruce Riedel

Life seemed more transient now, with people commonly relocating and changing jobs during their lifetime - things that had almost never happened a century ago. — Brandon Sanderson

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world. — David Levithan