Quotes About Development

Be careful that in urging people to turn away from the past you don't drive them away from you or from the new direction that the organization needs to take. Present innovations as developments that build on the past and help to realize its potential. Honor the past for what it has accomplished

Old weaknesses, previously patched over or compensated for, reemerge in full flower.

every civilization reaches a still point. The progressives can't go forward, and the conservatives can't go back. One demands continual advance, the other longs for yesterday.

The entire physical universe is essentially a slowed-down molecular training ground designed for the evolution of developing consciousness.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.

Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.

Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.

Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner's evolutionary frontier stages suggest.

How did things get to be this way?

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

Just as with the Maghribis, the clan's ability to enforce contracts is a success on one level in making trade possible when no formal institutions are available. But on another level, the reliance on enforcement inside the clan retarded the development of formal laws and institutions that would have made available a much greater scope of trade—such as between clans.

Ello no supone negar que muchos agravios nacionalistas sean genuinos; se trata simplemente de que los líderes nacionalistas parecen provocar tales agravios a expensas del futuro desarrollo económico.

los organismos de ayuda no pueden acabar con la pobreza en el mundo, pero sí pueden hacer muchas cosas útiles para satisfacer las desesperadas necesidades de los pobres y darles nuevas oportunidades.

East Asia's share of global exports went from 12 percent in 1960 to 31 percent by 2011. The same number in Latin America over the same period declined from 7 percent to 6 percent

Hoy en día, la falta de retroalimentación es uno de los defectos más críticos de la ayuda.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.