Quotes About Development

If you want to reach someplace new, you have to do something different than you've always done. Same actions will only yield the same results.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Coral Gables was successful from the start.

reduce mental interferences that inhibit the full expression of human potential

I'm not sure which is worse--being born to it or learning it.

Parents get all focused on themselves, and they see their little babies start walkin' and talkin', and since they kinda look like them and sound like the, they start thinking of those little babies as themselves....And then something funny happens. Those babies grow up to be kids and teenages and grown-ups in their own right....so everything the kids do, everything, is a betrayal.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

We have forgotten that a society progresses only to the extent that it produces leaders that are capable of guiding and inspiring progress. And we cannot develop such leaders unless our standards of education are geared to excellence instead of mediocrity.

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition!

There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Citizens are not born, but made.

Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

If you're smart, then your dreams evolve, too.

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I've got to admit it's getting better (Better) A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)

In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.