Quotes About Development

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!