Quotes About Development

A small step forward is better than one back.

It's safe to say that South Korea now has a reputation for being a place where cool stuff comes from. And yet, just 70 years ago—after the end of the Korean War—Korea was one of the poorest nations in the world.

The thrust is that in order to improve society you should concentrate on the small things. If you control those—or fix them—then the bigger changes will follow.

During the next few days, Harry learnt

Let's get on with bringing out the second

But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It's our job as parents to help our children learn appropriate behavior, not to enable poor behavior by making excuses for it.

How a family reacts to a child's behavior and how a child is disciplined also play a big role in the development of defiant behaviors. The

strengthens its circuits when you use it in

With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.

measures like GDP per person give only a rough reflection of the overall level of wellbeing of an individual or a nation. But for sustainable development we are interested in raising human wellbeing, not just in raising income, still less in a mad race for more riches for people who are already rich. Therefore, it is important to ask how we can best measure wellbeing (or life satisfaction) beyond GDP per capita.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

The most powerful tool for breaking extreme poverty is a holistic community-based development strategy that combines vocational training and job placement, early childhood development, educational upgrading, and local infrastructure. Each part of the antipoverty effort supports all of the others. This kind of ground-up development effort must in practice be led by the communities themselves but backed with financing from the federal and state governments. Options

Change cannot be hit-or-miss. It requires constant practice.

he has trouble separating from his family for even short periods of time. He cannot grow up and leave home. He has a fused self.

I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so—he leaned toward us—their tits bleed.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.

Who had known they talked so much, held so many opinions, jabbed at the world's sights with so many fingers? Between our sporadic glimpses of the girls they had been continously living developing in ways we couldn't imagine, reading every book on the bowdlerized family bookshelf. Somehow, too, they'd kept up dating etiquette, through television or observation at school, so that they knew how to keep the conversation flowing or fill awkward siliences.

Small children, by their very nature, are moral monsters.

T]he power of willful activity to shape the brain remains the working principle not only of early brain development, but also of brain function as an ongoing, living process.

this kind of increased synaptic strength is a key to the formation of enduring neuronal circuits and has become known by the maxim "Cells that fire together, wire together.

The molecular basis of memory and learning, the discovery of which earned Kandel a share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, stands as one of the best understood of the changes the brain undergoes. It is one of the mechanisms that underlie the plasticity of the developing brain. Changes in how an organism interacts with its environment result in changes in connectivity.