Quotes About Development

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

I'm really working towards perfecting my craft every single day.

I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.