Quotes About Development

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." —George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

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Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people.

Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.

The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.

twentieth-century urban America didn't belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.

Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.

whether in London's ornate arcades or Rio's fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together—the ultimate triumph of the city.

The logarithms of life are written in increasingly small numerals...

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.

Chicago's success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.

Summers complained of 'the development of stateless elites whose allegiance is to global economic success and their own prosperity rather than the interests of the nation where they are headquartered'.75

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water – at best – for a generation. Tens of millions of Westerners will struggle to keep their heads above the surface over the coming decades. The spread of automation, including artificial intelligence and remote intelligence, which some call the fourth industrial revolution, is still in its early stages.

Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, 'economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies'.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

Kindness makes kids grow, and adults as well.

All people have their own special skills. Instead of just identifying deficiencies, schools should try to identify and promote those special skills as early on as possible. For

They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important.

Even more valuable, I learned at an early age to teach myself.

Education builds software for your brain.

Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.