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Quotes About Development

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
~ Desmond Tutu
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
~ Alain Badiou
I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.
~ Scott Adkins
We are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious health targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to avoiding impoverishment from exorbitant out-of-pocket health expenses.
~ Tedros Adhanom
If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
~ Alex Steffen
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
~ Thomas Dekker
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
~ Mona Sutphen
Is the human race a universal constructor?
~ David Deutsch
Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.
~ Rumaan Alam
Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.
~ Carrie Lam
Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.
~ Carrie Lam
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
~ Caitlin Flanagan
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
~ Marianne Williamson
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
~ Jose Clemente Orozco
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.
~ Stephen Hawking
The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
~ Jean Piaget
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
~ Alexander Herzen
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
~ William Irwin Thompson
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
~ James Henry Breasted
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
~ Larry Wall
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
~ Alice Hoffman
Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.
~ Shiv Nadar