Quotes About Development

Africa has proven to produce some of the greatest athletes in the world, and it's a joy to be able to help grow that talent and create a space for African youth to learn.

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

Many people say that in a liberalised world there is little for the government to do, but the fact is that there is much for the government to do in fewer areas. One such area is to provide infrastructure.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Old ties give place to new ones.

There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Under this liberal and progressive regime, the republic may be said, in some ways, to have prospered.

Trialability is the degree to which an innovation may be experimented with on a limited basis.

These were not just Mao's mistakes, they were all our mistakes. Many of us made mistakes; we lacked experience and had poor judgment." He added, "We are very poor. We are very backward. We have to recognize that. We have a lot to do, a long way to go and a lot to learn.

In his pursuit of economic modernization, Deng liked to say that he was groping for stones as he crossed the river.

Deng reaffirmed as well the correctness of the party's strategic goal of quadrupling the economy between 1980 and 2000 and making China a moderately developed country by the middle of the twenty-first century.

it was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being

Makes sense, doesn't it?  They're investing a lot in their students.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Character is plot, plot is character.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

Compromising with events time moves along.