An Amendment (n.) is like a patch on a tire; it holds, and everyone remembers where the hole was.
Development (n.) gives a preview — the nation further along industrially simply displays to the less advanced nation a picture of its own future.
Development (n.) of an affair over the years may be nothing in the affair itself, only in one's attitude to it — more composed and, at once, more irritable.
Development (n.) and evolution subject scattered events to the exemplary power of life, finding in every beginning the outline of a future unity — mastering time through an origin and an end that are never given.
Development (n.) belongs only to the Concept: in Being things pass over into another, in Essence they shine into another, while the Concept posits nothing but what was already there.
Elaboration (n.) is the fourth paragraph of an email that needed one.
Elaboration (n.) gets longer exactly as the person explaining becomes less sure.
Elaboration (n.) is how a weak idea gets mistaken for a complete one.
Elaboration (n.) adds details that make a story harder to doubt and easier to disprove.
Personal growth (n.) is like remodeling a house while still living in it.
Personal growth (n.) is therapy homework you do between crises.
Personal growth (n.) is only visible backwards, which is why it gets announced far too early.
Personal growth (n.) usually means running out of patience with something you used to tolerate.