Quotes About Development

Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

L'architecture transforme un état de nature, en état de culture.

Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.

After all, education is the key to a higher civilization.

Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.

Todo, todo es posible en la historia —lo mismo el progreso triunfal e indefinido que la periódica regresión

Resultó desconcertante para muchos lectores de La riqueza de las naciones descubrir que no es el altruismo ni la caridad, sino más bien el egoísmo, el motor del progreso:

la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada

En este país no se puede construir un espacio de civilización ni siquiera minúsculo»

But here I would cite the philosophy of M. Scott Peck. In all groups there are four stages. Pseudocommunity. Chaos. Emptiness. And true community.

A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

One must educate oneself

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage... On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

The legendary wheat-field triumphs came from financial incentives, irrigation, and the return of the rains, and they came at the expense of more important food crops. Long-term growth trends in food production and food production per capita did not change, [and] the Green Revolution years, when separated out, actually marked a slowdown.

The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

A CIA report completed in 1968 found similarly: "The war and the bombing have eroded the North Vietnamese economy, making the country increasingly dependent on foreign aid. However, because the country is at a comparatively primitive stage of development and because the bombing has been carried out under important restrictions, damage to the economy has been small.

How do you bomb a nation into the Stone Age when, in modern industrial terms, they are not that far removed from it?

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —LEO TOLSTOY