Quotes About Development

Infrastructure is always hugely expensive, and there's no clear way to measure the overall future return on investment, whether it's in the form of innovation, development, or new communities or jobs. Infrastructure provides a skeleton on which to grow a new economic model. The infrastructure investments we make now will determine the kind of economy we have in the future.

the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent.

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day.

I suggest that you not ignore many possible candidates who are still developing these attributes, seeking the one who is perfected in them. You will likely not find that perfect person, and if you did, there would certainly be no interest in you. These attributes are best polished together as husband and wife.

Sometimes when you are feeling buried, you're just planted

The military, moreover, made one major cultural breakthrough: on the frozen lake, members of the Royal Canadian Rifles developed, by hit and miss and bump and grind, a new game using skates, field hockey sticks and a lacrosse ball.

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels.

my boss was saying intellectual investment is like compound interest: the more you do, the more you learn how to do, so the more you can do, etc. I do not know what compound interest rate to assign, but it must be well over 6%—one extra hour per day over a lifetime will much more than double the total output. The steady application of a bit more effort has a great total accumulation.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

They said he used to cackle and bark in his crib after dark. They said he walked at two months and sat staring at the moon whenever it shone. Those were things that people said. His parents were always worried about him. An only child, they noticed his flaws quickly. They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare.

There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before.

There's nothing wrong with civilization. We're just no there yet.

remember that the doubts you may feel today will be the issues you'll be confidently dissecting tomorrow.

If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.

Child-rearing is not some special part of life, set aside for some temporary purpose and put aside at a certain age. It is the principal business of life, the search for the condition that is naturally promised for us by the fact of our life. And we must do it by ourselves, one by one.

I am here to help her learn, Tansy said, not to keep her from it.

I was getting long in the leg but still short on experience.

Nine is the age of great turning. Maybe humanity was a nine-year-old, not yet grown up, not a little kid anymore. Seemingly in control, but always on the verge of rage.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

Like evolution, it reuses all the old, successful parts of everything that has come before. Like evolution, it just means unfolding.