Quotes About Development

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.

I joined Aston Villa to improve myself in the Premier League. It started well but then I got injured and Villa ended up having five managers that season.

The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules don't just happen. The rules for a city are different from the ones for a village, but as a village slowly gets bigger, a city may be stuck with the rules of the village.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.

Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.

I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.

Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be.

Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today.

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

I wanted to give everything that I lacked in my childhood to young children of my village. I had only talent but no scientific training, facilities or infrastructure to help.

I always said that to get India stronger, first strengthen its roots, and all our roots are our country's interiors, rural areas, and villages.