Quotes About Development

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

You know, I came in as a rookie and didn't get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I need to go play the right way, listen to LeBron and be a sponge and try to soak up what he's going to tell me.