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Quotes About Development

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?
~ Fernand Braudel
Révolution industrielle, la première révolution capable de faire progresser le monde à la vitesse fantastique de la machine.
~ Fernand Braudel
Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
~ Fernand Braudel
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.
~ Fernand Braudel
La civilisation musulmane, comme l'occidentale, est une civilisation dérivée, du second degré, pour reprendre la terminologie d'Alfred Weber. Elle ne s'est pas édifiée à partir d'une table rase, mais sur le tuf de cette civilisation bigarrée et très vivante qui l'a précédée dans le Proche-Orient.
~ Fernand Braudel
C à son arrivée se montre poli, prévenant et honnête ; c'est un comédien. Il faudra lui apprendre à être lui-même. Et enfin, le temps aidant, à devenir un autre. (p. 17)
~ Fernand Deligny
Despite the popularity of the leadership industry, a real competence in building and leading teams is uncommon, and there isn't a generally accepted way to teach these competencies.
~ Fernando Flores
The primary message of Dependency and Development was that the people of Latin America had control over their own fate. Under certain circumstances, we could indeed operate within the existing system. Many alternatives were possible within that system, and the fatalism that dominated the region at that time was entirely pointless, we wrote. There would, of course, be certain restrictions, and we did not advocate blind free-market capitalism.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
As We Move On We Will Grow
~ Fernando Santos
Me explico: el melocotón nace melocotón, el leopardo viene ya al mundo como leopardo, pero el hombre no nace ya hombre del todo ni nunca llega a serlo si los demás no le ayudan.
~ Fernando Savater
Progresa el hombre cuando crece su espíritu, pero no cuando engorda su bolsillo o se desboca su ambición.
~ Fernando Soto Aparicio
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
~ Fidel Castro
To compare is not to improve.
~ Field Marshall John French
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
~ Florence Nightingale
I find however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually and
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
~ Florence Welch
Life is its own curriculum, with each lesson needing to be learned.
~ Floyd Mayweather
New day means new experience, new lesson, new success and sure another chance to attain your goals.
~ Foodi S. M.
We learn a lot from our own mistakes, experience worth.
~ Foodi S. M.
Hypnosis has been around a long time. It's a phenomenon that has been used as a form of therapy. The term hypnosis was coined by a man named Dr. James Braid back in the nineteenth century. The field of clinical hypnotherapy has been developing ever since. In the late 1950s, the American Medical Association approved hypnosis instruction for inclusion in medical schools. And hypnosis is considered by clinicians to be a serious topic in the healing arts.
~ Forbes Robbins Blair
parents who build on their kids' strengths find their children growing in responsibility almost daily.
~ Foster W. Cline
Teens often resent guidelines and rebel at firm limits because they've grown to think differently than when they were younger.
~ Foster W. Cline
We must understand that making good choices is like any other activity: It has to be learned.
~ Foster W. Cline