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Quotes About Development

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.
~ Lewis Carroll
I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
~ Lewis Hamilton
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.
~ Lewis Hyde
Let us not forget that the same demands for accurate artillery fire resulted in the invention of the modern computer.
~ Lewis Mumford
Perhaps the best definition for the inhabitants of an early city is that they are a permanently captive farm population.
~ Lewis Mumford
This proposal for genetic control exposes the idea of control itself in its ultimate absurdity: the arrogant notion that finite minds, operating with the limited equipment of their particular culture and historic moment, will ever be qualified to exercise absolute control over the infinite future possibilities of human development.
~ Lewis Mumford
Only now that village ways are rapidly disappearing throughout the world can we estimate all that the city owes to them for the vital energy and loving nature that made possible man's further development.
~ Lewis Mumford
To become a full human being is nothing less than a lifetime's task.
~ Lewis Mumford
The light of human consciousness is, so far, the ultimate wonder of life, and the main justification for all the suffering and misery that have accompanied human development. In the tending of that fire, in the building of that world, in the intensification of that light, in the widening of man's open-eyed and sympathetic fellowship with all created being, lies the meaning of human history.
~ Lewis Mumford
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
~ Bruce Lee
What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.
~ Sushant Singh Rajput
In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.
~ Robin Li
I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and be in a more competitive environment because I wanted to grow as an artist. That's why I went to Europe.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Lougheed. Lougheed had a sensible plan for the oil sands, which involved ancillary infrastructure like upgraders and refineries.
~ Elizabeth May
Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.
~ Alex Garland
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
~ John W. Snow
Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.
~ Jimmy Butler
I am not disgruntled. I am frustrated at a lack of leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head start on developing lifesaving tools for Americans. I'm frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me.
~ Rick Bright
The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.
~ Tedros Adhanom
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
~ Piet Mondrian
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
~ Peter Thiel
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
~ Claudio Hummes
My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
~ Marina Abramovic