Quotes About Development

In any event, there was no "fall" into "Dark Ages." Instead, once freed of the bondage of Rome, Europe separated into hundreds of independent "statelets."16 In many of these societies progress and increased production became profitable, and that ushered in "one of the great innovative eras of mankind," as technology was developed and put into use "on a scale no civilization had previously known.

An additional indication of economic growth in ancient Greece comes from the major increases in the average size of Greek houses: in the eighth century BC it was 53 square meters; by the sixth century BC it had grown to 122 square meters; and by the fifth century BC it was 325 square meters.54

the Romans knew of the watermill but made nearly no use of it, continuing to rely on muscle power to grind their flour.20 The Ottoman Empire prohibited the mechanical clock, and so did the Chinese.

For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain backward and impoverished.

capitalism was a very Catholic invention: it first appeared in the great monastic estates, way back in the ninth century.

Russians like the rest of us prefer to believe that their history has progressed in a straight and positive line. They explain away troubling events such as brutal reigns of Ivan the Terrible or Stalin as necessary stages on the path to greatness.

Feedback is oxygen. It's lifeblood. We can't grow and develop without it.

Understanding should be promoted in young children before it is too late.

The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be.

To put the point another way: the Marxist theory of history, which explains all historical development as the product of changes in the economic infrastructure, is false.

Ali gotovo uvijek idemo najkra?im putem, ravno, pa zaboravljamo da ?ovjek može napredovati ?ak i kad ide u krug.

All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results. Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ideas you unloose in their cultures, if you do not change the men themselves?

Go ahead and smirk. These things are not always a mere function of time

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.

Writing, on the contrary, is always rooted in something beyond language, it develops like a seed, not like a line, it manifests an essence and holds the threat of a secret, it is an anti­ communication, it is intimidating.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life.

soon to be eclipsed by New York.

Rejecting a simple grid for the capital as tiresome and insipid, he argued that such a pattern made sense only for flat cities. Not only would diagonal streets provide contrast and variety, but they would serve as express lanes, shortening the distance between places. Town squares would be situated where diagonal avenues crossed.

The sum total of these developments resulted in nothing less than a revolution in medical education.

As he ventured timidly beyond the self-contained world of his youth, he could not just enjoy spontaneous pleasure and had to justify it in terms of self-improvement.

What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self-criticism.