Quotes About Development

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

In general, the best clue to a nation's growth and development potential is the status and role of women. This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity

The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today—even as the number of children has risen.

the single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.

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You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual," Greg says, quoting an African proverb. "You educate a girl, and you're educating an entire village.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.

Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot. Microfinance has done more to bolster the status of women, and to protect them from abuse, than any laws could accomplish.

Co-creation suggests the interaction of individuals within a framework to evolve, re-define or invent something that is new.

we have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous Huxley, 1934

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system, and borrowed another

As I grow up, I want to keep having LB Scoots, and I would also like to start other companies

For this reason, within China the four state-owned banks in the 1980s were invariably referred to as "specialized banks" (????

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind

Pain helps us grow stronger.

For me, adolescence was such a glorious time. The intensity of your emotions at that period in your development is something awe-inspiring, no matter how painful it might sometimes seem. I believe that none of us really grows out of that. At least I haven't, or I just wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

You musn't neglect your education in favor of your studies.

The good is enough additude is not what we're looking for, we have got to use every oppurtunity to improve indivisually so we can improve collectively

we had more skill than you can imagine, at almost every position. But guys didn't want to put in the effort or to play with toughness and togetherness, and the incredible skills never developed into talent.