Development Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Joe Haldeman

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

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

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

Jonas Caino

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

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

Vandana Shiva

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

Unarine Ramaru

Development is better than Girl-friend

Samy Mar Boy

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

Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.

John Rogers

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

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

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature.

Auliq-Ice

Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.

Auliq-Ice

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

Progress is much more better than perfect.

Toba Beta

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

Ernst F. Schumacher

In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn’t be linear. Ours was a nest of concentric circles, and an enterprise was measured by its value to each circle, from the individual and family to the community and environment. I realized that Rebecca and her colleagues were trying to do nothing less than transform the System of National Accounts, the statistical framework here and in most countries for measuring economic activity. For instance, the value of a tree depends on its estimated value or sale price, but if it is sold and cut down, there is no accounting on the debit side of the ledger for loss of oxygen, seeding of other trees, or value to the community or the environment. This group was inventing a new way of measuring profit and loss. By the end of our days together, I understood economics in a whole new way. A balance sheet really could be about balance.

Gloria Steinem

Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor.

Eduardo Galeano

OURSOCIETY ISCONTROLLED BY LAWYERSAND FINANCIERS"PROBLEMMAKERS WE NEED TO EVOMETO A SOCIETY LEAD BYCREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEMSOLVERS. SURELY WE WILLHAVE MORE INGENUITYCOOPERATION ANDPEACE

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Bill Nye

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Alexander Graham Bell

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

John Parenti

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people’s demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10

Walter Rodney

It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children have to die each year from lack of food or medical attention or social care. This issue, of course, is not new, and it has been a subject of some discussion among theologians. The argument that God has reasons to want us to deal with these matters ourselves has had considerable intellectual support. As a nonreligious person, I am not in a position to assess the theological merits of this argument. But I can appreciate the force of the claim that people themselves must have responsibility for the development and change of the world in which they live. One does not have to be either devout or non devout to accept this basic connection. As people who live-in a broad sense-together, we cannot escape the thought that the terrible occurrences that we see around us are quintessentially our problems. They are our responsibility-whether or not they are also anyone else's. As competent human beings, we cannot shirk the task of judging how things are and what needs to be done. As reflective creatures, we have the ability to contemplate the lives of others. Our sense of behavior may have caused (though that can be very important as well), but can also relate more generally to the miseries that we see around us and that lie within our power to help remedy. That responsibility is not, of course, the only consideration that can claim our attention, but to deny the relevance of that general claim would be to miss something central about our social existence. It is not so much a matter of having the exact rules about how precisely we ought to behave, as of recognizing the relevance of our shared humanity in making the choices we face.

Amartya Sen

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Donald Miller

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

Matthew T. Cross

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Friedrich Engels

Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice

Sunday Adelaja

Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extremely small, if we measure it from the viewpoint of modern scientific achievements or even by the standards of England in the late eighteenth century. However, it must be borne in mind that to be held back at one stage means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person is forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education, it is no reflection on him that he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of greatest importance. Pg. 105

Walter Rodney

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.

J.R.D. Tata

Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.

Nana Awere Damoah

Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

Nana Awere Damoah

The youth. The youth of Africa. The youth of this world. Are we harnessing the potential of the youth enough? Are the young ones… giving off their best to the continent, the nation, the universe that is giving us so much? Why do we think we can only contribute something after age forty? Are we not causing wealth loss to our generation?

Nana Awere Damoah

Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before.

Sunday Adelaja

The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly allied to him, than they are from one another.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

Charles Emmerson

If better were within, better would come out.

J.R. Rim

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Interestingly, do you know who is the most difficult person to love? It is easy to love friends and not too difficult to love those less fortunate than ourselves. It certainly isn't easy loving enemies, but sometimes the person most difficult to love is the one who is MORE fortunate than we are. The one who receives the promotion we deserved. The one who gets the recognition we desired, the honor we sought or the affections of the lover we had hoped to win. It is easy to resent those who seem to be more fortunate – those who “get all the breaks.

Steve Goodier

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.

Eraldo Banovac

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Communist empires. But too often, what rushed in to replace the old order were empty hopes-not only in the false allure of state socialism, non-alignment and single-party rule, but also the false glories of romantic nationalism and narrow tribalism, and the false dawn of runaway individualism.

Aga Khan

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Pat Conroy

You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

Criss Jami

True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.

Sunday Adelaja

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Amit Kalantri

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.

Immanuel Kant

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world.

Francis A.Schaeffer

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