Quotes About Development

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

The biggest thing that limits India's growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.

There are patches in the GRC that are actually full of low-income people... and we cannot leave them behind in our pursuit of economic development and success.

If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics, and with steps toward the unification of all interactions.

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

There is always room for improvement, but I am happy with what I am doing on the pitch.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.