We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
China is developing very quickly. At every stage, its needs are different.
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have different patterns, different policies for ecology, labor standards, and so forth.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.
The budding rose above the rose full blown.
We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
