Quotes About Development

if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die.

To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social skills - when our kids are little. I don't see ho it's putting them ahead if they know how to write their name before the next kid.

being let go is still another step upward on the ladder of life.

the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. And if you are like El Patron . . . Just think about it." – Tam Lin

When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.

character with both progressive motivation and internal changes, congratulations.

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.

We have made cities out of our suburbs, and now, with the corporate drift form urban centers, are beginning to make suburbs out of our cities.

The estate Marjorie envisioned was to be erected in the middle of the seventeen-acre lot, which, when cleared of jungle growth, would be surrounded by great stretches of rolling lawn with views of Lake Worth and the Atlantic.

Human existence, he believed, was a series of spiritual gradations through which man evolved to a higher state by virtue of his deeds.

It started small, as such fates often do.

We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up—fast.

But the most powerful lever for change in the Global South is the same as in the Global North: the emergence of positive, practical, and concrete alternatives to dirty development that do not ask people to choose between higher living standards and toxic extraction. Because if dirty coal is the only way to turn on the lights in India, then that is how those lights will be turned on. And if public transit is a disaster in Delhi, then more and more people will keep choosing to drive cars.

Kader was the worst fire in industrial history, taking more lives than the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire that killed 146 young workers in New York City in 1911. The parallels between Triangle and Kader — separated from each other by half a world, and eighty-two years of so-called development — are chilling: it was as if time hadn't moved forward, but had simply shifted locations.

The world does not have enough resources and energy to give everyone a life of consumer luxury. We could, though, improve everyone's uality of life in different ways.

Superstorm Sandy, meanwhile, has been a windfall for New Jersey real estate developers who have received millions for new construction in lightly damaged areas, while it continues to be a nightmare for those living in hard-hit public housing, much as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina played out in New Orleans.10

En zo begon het hortend en stotend over de startbaan te rollen als een half afgebouwd vliegtuig dat letterlijk door een aantal mensen omhoog en bijeen werd gehouden terwijl anderen nog de wielen, de vleugels en de stoelen aan het monteren waren en de stuurinstallatie en de motor op orde probeerden te brengen, terwijl weer anderen er met de bagage in hun armen achteraan renden.

so many things frowned upon in the early days that shaped us

As we milled about before the meeting, I noticed the school had removed all the hallway lockers — "because of COVID." What this meant in practice was that the students, whose bodies were still growing and developing, had to carry an entire locker's worth of schoolbooks, seventy-plus pounds worth, in backpacks all day long.

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.