Quotes About Development

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood.

Innovation ensured that each cycle normally reached a higher level than its predecessor, but innovation was normally too slow to prevent an eventual collapse within each cycle, as populations outstripped available resources.

Increasing global inequalities fueled resistance to Western values. In 1960 the wealthiest 20 percent of the world's population earned about thirty times as much as the poorest 20 percent; in 1991 the wealthiest 20 percent earned sixty-one times as much. The successes of the most highly industrialized

Fernandez-Armesto, F. (2007). The world: A history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Between 1750 and 2000 the number of human beings increased from approximately 770 million to almost 6 billion, close to an eightfold increase in just 250 years. This increase is the equivalent of a growth rate of about 0.8 percent per annum and represents a doubling time of about eighty-five years. (Compare this with estimated doubling times of fourteen hundred years during the agrarian era and eight thousand to nine thousand years during the era of foragers.)

as Joel Mokyr has argued, technological innovation is unlikely to happen quickly where those who work lack wealth, education, and prestige, and those who are wealthy, educated, and have prestige know nothing about productive work.

It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large banks were actively managing industrial change.

an eleventh-century CE Muslim prince from Tabaristan wrote in a book for his son, "Make it your constant endeavor to improve cultivation and to govern well; for understand this truth: the kingdom can be held by the army, and the army by gold; and gold is acquired through agricultural development and agricultural development through justice and equity. Therefore be just and equitable.

With modern research, almost every aspect of the old edifice of human evolution,] the explanations of the development of modern man, domestication, metallurgy, urbanization and civilization - may in perspective emerge as semantic snares and metaphysical mirages.

As the decision-maker in your organization, you must become intimately engaged with leadership development, hiring, and firing.

You learn more by reading more. I'm living proof that the more you learn, the more you earn.

But after children leave their parents' arms, school is still the necessary place for knowledge and soul to spring into life and good teachers are still the instigators of that miracle.

there is only one way of making progress: conjecture and criticism

the assumption that progress in a hypothetical rapacious civilization is limited by raw materials rather than by knowledge.

They are 'universal constructors'.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

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The study of economic lift-off is well developed; touch-down has not been considered. There is an asymmetry here which would invite comment if applied to aviation.

Rouche era fatto così, era costantemente in ritardo sulla versione migliore di se stesso.

El propósito de la encarnación física es el desarrollo de una conciencia superior.

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of