I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men so I thought I would be a writer instead.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination the whole world opens up to you.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

I was a precocious only child and then I went through a fat awkward stage for several years so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive so I think it was more of a natural progression for me developing into comedy.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Inventions have long since reached their limit and I see no hope for further development.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there with no help except curiosity and the will to learn that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

When it comes to developing character strength inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child no institution can or ever will compare with or effectively substitute for the home's potential for positive influence.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

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.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

I brought together experts from health care business academic institutions and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs promote the development of safe effective medicines and guarantee patient rights.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases rather than focusing on individual ones.