Quotes About Development

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

brought up rather than brought out. Dick

His day, usually a jellylike creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, towards a climax, as a play should, as a day should.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.

liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government — communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial — but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria. ("Why they still hate us, 13 years later," Washington Post, 09/05/2014)

Government investments in science, technology, and infrastructure have slumped sharply

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

History is not was, it is.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Una frase de C.S. Lewis en el Moleskine: «La tarea del educador moderno no es cortar selvas, sino regar desiertos».

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.

Thomas had inherited his father's reason without his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for all practical action was to wait and see what developed.

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought that this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

I'm a fan of coaching.

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.