Quotes About Development

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

Education is not about just planting a seed; it is also about nurturing, over many decades, a productive, meaningful, and happy life.

Progress cannot be only intuited. It must be written, and read.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment.

Looking back over the past quarter, what are the things you have achieved that make you the proudest? What are the current areas of focus and progress that make you the most confident? Looking ahead at the next quarter, what new developments, projects, or goals are giving you the greatest sense of excitement? What are the five new "jumps" (progress) you can now achieve that will make your next 90 days a great quarter regardless of what else happens?

When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates." —Pearson's Law

Relationships are how you transform as a person. Relationships are how you transcend your current limitations. Relationships are how you produce results. Relationships are the purpose of life.

Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him, '"What part of Linux should I work on?' his answer would usually be, '"Let me know when you find out' (p.286).

The ways in which art history has approached these tasks has changed over time.

authorship, authenticity, and chronologically defined linear progression, all

Seems like in real life, it's not one person saving the other… more like both people making each other better. I mean, that's why God made both genders, right?

Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

Everything change with mine, Katya.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, first in Britain, then in Western Europe and North America. Men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories' growing demand for labor.

Eventually, capitalism transformed itself, and its gains began to be shared more widely.

Hay muchísimo en juego. La globalización mal gestionada está teniendo importantes consecuencias, no sólo en Estados Unidos, sino también en el resto del mundo desarrollado —en especial en Europa— y en los países con ingresos bajos y medios en los que viven la mayoría de los trabajadores del mundo. Es de capital importancia lograr un equilibrio entre la apertura económica y el derecho a la gestión del espacio político.

Ni la convergencia económica ni la homogeneización de preferencias son una consecuencia inevitable de la globalización.

Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance—the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women—is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14