Development Quotes - Page 3

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

I don't like museums, I like labs.

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

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

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

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.

El desarrollo es
desarrollo, sólo si es humano

If we 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.

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.

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

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

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

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

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

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

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

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

Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when to speak and when to stay silent. - Pam MacRae (Ch. 2)