Quotes About Development

Focus on progress, not perfection.

You don't know all that you can be unless you've tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there's always room for improvement.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Today, the issue isn't quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.