Quotes About Development

empirical life is rooted in an a priori datum which does not come slowly into existence by mechanical development, but is a gift of God's grace, and a fruit and result of his revelation.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Ve waldorfské škole není obvyklé opakovat t?ídu, a proto se tady posouzení školní zralosti p?ikládá ten nejv?tší význam.

Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton, and mathematics has scarcely ever experienced such a stormy epoch. Mathematical thought removes the spirit from its worldly haunts to solitude and renounces the unveiling of the secrets of Nature. But as recompense, mathematics is less bound to the course of worldly events than physics.

We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of Euclidean geometry.

Develop your situation sensors. –   Get involved in projects outside your area. –   Participate in extracurricular activities. –   Communicate your personal "why.

If you don't create new opportunities within the confines of your "day job," they may never come your way.

they derive much of their sense of identity from their title and employer and that such overidentification with any institution can lead to stunted growth in other arenas. Far into our careers, we can remain the victims of other people's values and expectations.

We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.

Rarely does "becoming an ex" happen as a result of one sudden decision. Instead, it happens over a period of time, one that often begins before we are fully aware of what is happening.

In Haiti, untitled rural and urban real estate holdings are together worth some 5.2 billion. To put that sum in context, it is four times the total of all the assets of all the legally operating companies in Haiti, nine times the value of all assets owned by the government, and 158 times the value of all foreign direct investment in Haiti's recorded history to 1995.

the problem was not people but the law, which was discouraging and preventing people from being more productive.

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

In a generation everything can change.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

It was just that I was unsuited to being a child.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

in the particular case of human beings, there can be no determination of what a human being is, no human nature, apart from the manifold ways in which humans become, as they live out their lives in diverse communities and environments.