Ontogenetic Change Quotes & Sayings

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. — Geraldine Brooks

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight. — Christy Turlington

Because we forgot magic,' Gim — Peter V. Brett

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters - it is all the same. — Mesa Selimovic

But by the grace of God I am what I am — John Newton

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world ... but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon. — Qiu Jin

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.
(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") — Wendell Berry

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck? — Casey Stengel

The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life. — Swami Dhyan Giten

By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal. — Temple Grandin

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. — Ole Hallesby

A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal progression. It wasn't some crazy idea, it was just, "Can we start our own agency? Can we do this?" — Jeff Vespa