Quotes About Development

That was the river, this is the sea.

As time passed, it grew easier and easier to let go of what I had. The reason was simple: I had a lot. Like most people who go overseas to do development work, I did so expecting to find out what it's like to be poor. But awakening to my surroundings after a few months, I discovered that that's not what happens. Instead you learn what it's like to be rich, to be fabulously, incomprehensibly bloated with wealth. No one in Kalambayi could afford to share more than I.

Cehalet, boÅŸ inançlar gibi sanayinin de anas?d?r. DüÅŸünce ve hayal gücü insan? hataya sürükleyebilir; ama ayak ya da eli hareket ettirme al??kanl??? bunlardan ne birini ne diÄŸerini gerektirir. Dolay?s?yla manifaktürler, en büyük geliÅŸme olanaklar?na, akla en az baÅŸvurulan yerlerde kavuÅŸur." Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

But The Master and Margarita is true to the broader sense of the novel as a freely developing form embodied in the works of Dostoevsky and Gogol, of Swift and Sterne, of Cervantes, Rabelais and Apuleius.

If You Want To Experience Great Positive Change In Your Life, Always Prune Your Good Habits Towards That Change, And Uproot Any Bad Habits That May Be Limiting You.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Leidenschaften sind nichts anderes als Ideen in ihrem ersten Entwicklungsstadium: sie gehören zur Jugend des Herzens, und ein Dummkopf ist derjenige, der meint, von ihnen ein Leben lang erregt zu werden: viele ruhige Flüsse beginnen als rauschende Wasserfälle, doch keiner springt und schäumt bis zum Meer.

Most of us have a particular narrative that we tell ourselves (and others) about how we came to be who we are.

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that they will one day be grownups. No, the reason is that mankind is moving more and more in the direction of infancy, and childhood is the image of the future.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

L'uomo, spinto dal senso della bellezza, transforma un avvenimento casuale (la musica di Beethoven, una morte alla stazione) in un motivo che va poi a iscriversi nella composizione della sua vita. Ad esso ritorna, lo ripete, lo varia, lo sviluppa, lo traspone, come fa il compositore con i temi della sua sonata.

ningún episodio está a priori condenado a seguir siendo para siempre episodio, porque cualquier acontecimiento, aun el más insignificante, esconde dentro de sí la posibilidad de llegar a ser antes o después la causa de otros acontecimientos y convertirse así en una historia o una aventura.

Children are the future not because they will one day be adults but because humanity is becoming more and more a child, because childhood is the image of the future.

you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Change will lead to insight more often than insight will lead to change.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: You don't understand. This is a jobs program.]

Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents.

There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.