Development Quotes

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

~ Alex Garland

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

~ Bernard Berenson

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar, EVERYTHING came out, eventually, somehow. But the PROCESS – how he put together a story about the world’s workings – that was mysterious beyond all ken. In a way, she thought, it was the only disappointing thing about having a child. She’d imagined he would stay transparent to her, more PART of her, for so much longer. But despite the proximity of the daily work, Edgar had ceased long before to be an open book. A friend, yes. A son she loved, yes. But when it came to knowing his thoughts, Edgar could be opaque as a rock.

~ David Wroblewski

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

~ J.r. Rim

In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. When the conditions came, life returned to the heart of Death Valley.Human beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grown in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our unique natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth and fulfillment a as individuals.

~ Ken Robinson

Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow.

~ Ed Catmull

Do more than just exist, create to inspire!

~ T.f. Hodge

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

~ Carol S. Dweck

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

~ Aisha Mirza

When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.

~ Raphael Zernoff

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

~ Sara Dormon

Purpose expresses most deeply what makes you a unique individual. Your purpose defines who you are, how you live your life and how you lead. Your purpose provides you with inner strength and drive to live and lead each day. It equips you with what you need to face the challenges of the day and of life. Your purpose provides context and meaning to your life.

~ Thomas Narofsky

The brain cannot learn without wondering, listening, and making connections while your myelin part of your brain develops and grows ― Sage Canny

~ Sage Canny

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.

~ Mary Mihalic

Entrepreneur, the development of your daily discipline will determine then deliver your desired distinction.

~ Onyi Anyado

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

~ Steve Goodier

Thus, in achieving ones goals, one improves, develops and discovers his potentials

~ Sunday Adelaja

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

~ Lisa Firestone

We live in truly unbelievable times. Autism is an epidemic in most westerncountries, western governments are nothing more than corrupt corporations, and corporations areroutinely suppressing information regarding the toxicity of many common household items. The resultis that many people are unnecessarily suffering from easily preventable developmental problems,sickness and cancer.

~ Steven Magee

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others.By helping others we help ourselves

~ Harmon Okinyo

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.

~ Muhammad Yunus

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

~ Muhammad Yunus

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

~ Muhammad Yunus

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.

~ Muhammad Yunus

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

~ Paul Collier

There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and celebrated in all the newspapers, invoked by zealous bureaucrats in every self-serving television interview. On this matter, the filmmaker was agnostic--he came from money, and couldn't see the urgency. Like many of his ilk, he sometimes confused poverty (which must be eradicated!) with folklore (which must be preserved!), but it was a genuine confusion, without a hint of ill intention, which only made it more infuriating.

~ Daniel Alarcón

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

~ William Easterly

Not all developing countries are the same.

~ Paul Collier

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

~ Paul Collier

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

~ Ian Smillie

A sure way a country can develop is through a true development of the masses. Yes! A sure way to ensure a true freedom of the people is for the people take up their own destiny into their hands and bond their strengths to positively dare with a clear vision and fortitude like the eagle for a great change in wisdom and in peace, devoid of rebellious motive, massacre and nepotism, and with tenacity, direct the thought, policy and inspiration of the few people who rule the masses for the best change ever! Until this is done, the masses shall always cry out of ignorance, not knowing the real power within them and beg at the feet of the few people for how they should live their lives!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars, under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.

~ Eduardo Galeano

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor people in the developing world as a whole declined by only 400 million over the same period. In other words, but for China, there would have been an increase in the number of poor people in the developing world. No wonder a World Bank report said that a fall in the number of poor of this magnitude over such a short period is without historical precedent.

~ Wang Shaoguang

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

~ Criss Jami