Quotes About Development

Beginning in about 3200 b.c.—roughly during the same period when the Egyptians were building their first pyramids—people on Peru's northern coast began building terraced mounds alongside large plazas, ceremonial architecture, and large-scale settlements.

is biological, but we don't always realize that the ability to sleep is a learned skill.

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

What did or didn't happen last year is less a product of a lack of discipline and willpower, and more a product of the resources - internal and external - that you are still developing.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

Life is my seed, I have yet to sprout.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

There are times when I swear that boy is as mature as an old man, and other times when he hasn't got the sense of a three-year-old babe. (Mavis) Good Lord, Mavis. He is a grown man after all! (Alice)

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

Le temps est fait pour avancer. Ne t'accommode pas d'une vie où il reste figé.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

If we get lucky, it will grow hair.

In terms of per capita income, the bottom half in America is better off. However, in terms of social progress, the average income of the bottom half of the Chinese people is rising much faster, albeit from a lower starting point.

Clearly, ASEAN needs to strengthen its secretariat. In contrast to the budget of the EU Secretariat, which is US$154 billion, the annual budget of the ASEAN Secretariat is US$19 million.

When China built walls and cut off communication with the rest of the world, it fell behind. When China opened up to the world, it thrived. To guarantee its continued long-term success, China should completely abandon its two-thousand-year-old Middle Kingdom mentality and decide to become the most open society in terms of economic engagement with the rest of the world.

You cannot develop a country by oppressing the poor of the poorest