development quotes

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Africa is on the rise.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Africa will thrive.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.