Development Quotes

To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.

~ Auliq Ice

Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.

~ Oscar Auliq-Ice Jr

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

If energy is a paradigm of societal progress, the need of the hour and duty of society is both energy development and on the other hand, a reduction in its consumption. However, till energy becomes store-able, any endeavour of development and/or storage can never guarantee its uninterrupted

~ Priyavrat Thareja

The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.

~ John Rogers

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

~ Vandana Shiva

A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses the Cascade Range. In midsummer, the cabin looked strange in the forest. It was only twelve feet square, but it rose fully two stories and then had a high and steeply peaked roof. From the ridge of the roof, moreover, a ten-foot pole stuck straight up. Tied to the top of the pole was a shovel. To hikers shedding their backpacks at the door of the cabin on a cold summer evening -- as the five of us did -- it was somewhat unnerving to look up and think of people walking around in snow perhaps thirty-five feet above, hunting for that shovel, then digging their way down to the threshold. [1971]

~ John Mcphee

A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.

~ Jonas Caino

Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the garments of fertility for a century, pretending to greenery and growth as they mined glacial water from ten-thousand-year-old aquifers. They'd played dress-up-in-green and pretended it could last forever. They'd pumped up the Ice Age and spread it across the land, and for a while they'd turned their dry lands lush. Cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans -- vast green acreages, all because someone could get a pump going. Those places had dreamed of being different from what they were. They'd had aspirations. And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that their prosperity was borrowed, and there would be no more coming.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

~ Yasunari Kawabata

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

~ Joe Haldeman

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

It is critical that both North and South work collectively for facing the online challenges in defeating the criminals but we also need to ensure that the internet remains a platform for freedom of expression and uncensored information otherwise, it will have a negative impact on social economic development.

~ Arzak Khan

The impact of the internet on economic development is shifting in two important directions. First, given the aging population and near-saturated market penetration in the advanced economies, most of the expansion of the internet related market will take place in developing countries like Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Secondly, the globalization of the internet is expected to increase the share of developing countries in the internet economy presenting a historic opportunity for the young and poor in Pakistan to improve their economic condition.

~ Arzak Khan

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

~ Auliq Ice

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

~ Shashi Tharoor

I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am almost a woman, but what am I now? I'm no child. I am mature. I know much; I'm somewhere in between. I'm confused--that's what I am. One day I'll long for a baby in my arms or a man's strong arms to hold me...the next, for freedom, respect.

~ Maya Morrow

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

~ Joseph E. Stiglitz

The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers.

~ Naomi Klein

Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

~ William Wordsworth

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.

~ Michael Grunwald

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within, we cannot impose it on them.

~ Paul Collier

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

~ William Easterly

Half, Not Half-Assed

~ 37 Signals

Original thinking is the hardest thing you can try to do or that you can do, but it is also the most rewarding. Focus on your personal growth and development

~ David Sikhosana

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

~ Patrick Mendis

You got warlords still running free, but yet you want a stable Liberia. You got puppets as leaders still signing off Liberia's resources to foreigners, but yet you want a developed Liberia. They are threat to a progressive Liberia.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.

~ Carla Perez

When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.

~ Luigina Sgarro

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

~ Maryse Condé

Celaena peered in the mirror—and stopped dead.The somewhat shorter hair was the least of the changes.She was now flushed with color, her eyes bright and clear, and though she'd regained the weight she'd lost during that winter, her face was leaner. A woman—a woman was smiling back at her, beautiful for every scar and imperfection and mark of survival, beautiful for the fact that the smile was real, and she felt it kindle the long-slumbering joy in her heart.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, or not at all...

~ J. Neven-Pugh

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became

~ Donald G. Reinertsen