Quotes About Development

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I was far away from where China was changing and was constantly reminded that more changes were around the corner.

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

We have also realized that our biggest failure over the last fifty years has been of administrative and institutional incompetence and our inability to implement rather than of ideology.

Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.

Tradition is laziness.

Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on.

there is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

Language is mankind's greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

Franz Delitzsch, who put it most memorably when he wrote in 1878 that "we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.

Mankind's perception of color, he says, increased "according to the schema of the color spectrum": first came the sensitivity to red, then to yellow, then to green, and only finally to blue and violet. The most remarkable thing about it all, he adds, is that this development seems to have occurred in exactly the same order in different cultures all over the world. Thus, in Geiger's hands, Gladstone's discoveries about

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.

According to some researchers, hominids prior to Homo sapiens could not, for instance, produce the vowel i {ee}. But ultimately, this does not say very much, since by all accounts, et es perfectle pesseble to have a thoroughle respectable language wethout the vowel i.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies all over the world from distress and other forms of migration. A basic income system in impoverished and low-income communities in developing countries would surely encourage more people to stay in and (re)build their communities.

The optimal mental state for training in is called "the flow state", most famously defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his 1988 book Flow. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it. This book made me realise that the thing I was really trying to teach most of my students was how to develop an autotelic personality, which means a person who is able to set their own goals.