Quotes about Development

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

Article that said in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

What if the story of our lives is less about what we build and more about who we build up?

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

that, you have to leave your comfort zone.