#dev

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.' ↗

— Jon Cryer

#character #develop #different #film #here

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#classrooms #devoted #educational #kids #lag

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#challenges #developing #energy #energy production #foreign

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#clumsy #cruel #devil #horribly #low

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#because #best #competitive #content #designers

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. ↗

— Angela Davis

#alliance #another #around #called #case

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#cassandra-clare #infernal-devices #saint-augustine #the-infernal-devices #death

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#content #devoid #escapism #i #just

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#expect #face #meet #never #our