Quotes About Development

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet.

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.