Development Quotes

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

~ Calvin Coolidge

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

~ Corrine Brown

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

~ Robert Smithson

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

~ James Gunn

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

~ Charles Francis Richter

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

~ Tim Holden

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

~ Kofi Annan

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

~ Lev Vygotsky

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

~ Jeff Cooper

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

~ Kenzo Tange

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

~ Alvar Aalto

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

~ Walter Gropius

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

~ Liya Kebede

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

~ Friedrich Engels

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

~ Maurice Hinchey

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

~ Billy Mitchell

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

~ Aldous Huxley

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

~ Martin Rees

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

~ Joss Whedon

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

~ Wendy Kopp

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

~ Anne M. Mulcahy

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

~ Warren Bennis

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

~ Augustin Matata Ponyo

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

~ Geoff Mulgan

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

~ Katherine Waterston

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

~ Matt Mullenweg

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

~ Jonathan Ive

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

~ Daniel Yergin

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

~ Chester A. Arthur

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

~ Nancy Pelosi

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

~ Lech Walesa

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

~ Paul Wellstone