Quotes about Development

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress

The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.