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

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

  Rick Warren

  Character, People, Support

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• God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

  Rick Warren

  Growing Up, Character, Goal

  Rick Warren (2007). “The Purpose Driven Life Dvd Study Guide: A Six-session Video-based Study for Groups Or Individuals”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

  Matt Lauria

  Writing, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Character, Looks, Development

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1978). “You're richer than you think”

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• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Real, Character, Worry

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• I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Pride, Prejudice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As with editing, I think my strength as a writer is structure. It's not a skill that's much discussed when we discuss fiction, or not as much as language or character development anyway, but it's the first thing I determine before I begin writing - not just books, but anything. I think I know how to pace a narrative well. I think I'm aware of repetition, that I try to create different kinds of sentences as often as I can. Those are all things I learned from magazine editing.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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