Quotes About Development

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy.

The new Powerhouse in Parramatta will be bigger and better than anything this state has seen.

We will continue to support our sportspersons and we endeavour to make India a sporting powerhouse.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Roads are not practical in Africa.

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Everything is practice.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.