Character Development Quotes

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Character, Development, Today

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• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Shining, Connections

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• There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Character, Thinking, Development

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

  Martin Henderson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Respect, Knowledge

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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• Self-control is the only possible road to character development

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Self, Development

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• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Teenager, Home

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• Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Character, Perfection, Pay

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• There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

  Dennis Prager

  Teaching, School, Character

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• Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.

  Thomas Lickona

  Strong, Children, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2004). “Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition.

  Robert Englund

  Character, People, Stories

  Source: classic-horror.com

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• I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Character, Loss, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

  Jim Jefferies

  Character, Plot Lines, Trying

  "LEGIT - the New FX Series! Interview with Jim Jeffries". Interview with Jeri Jacquin, patch.com. February 05, 2013.

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• Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

  Tom Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Important

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

  Columbus Short

  Mean, Character, Three

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 02, 2009.

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• Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Believe, Character, Should Have

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Spiritual, Character, Independent

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