Quotes About Development

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where states often cannot go.

There are many beautiful and resource-rich areas all over the Philippines that are still undeveloped or under-developed. These areas offer opportunities for better master-planning and the emergence of better communities as well as cities.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

Orlando gave me a lot since I came here, and it gave me a chance to become who I am as a player since I came here from Philly.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

Philosophy changes day by day.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.