Development famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
-- A. E. Waite -
If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!
-- Abby Johnson -
Political development should start at the grassroots.
-- Abdallah II -
India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
-- Aga Khan IV -
Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
-- Alain Aspect -
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
-- Alain Badiou -
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
-- Alan Guth -
It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.
-- Alan Tower Waterman -
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to ***** or mask the process of dilution.
-- Aldo Leopold -
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
-- Alex Trebek -
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
-- Alexander Gould -
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
-- Alexander Herzen -
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
-- Alexander Kotov -
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
-- Alexis Korner -
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.
-- Alfred Kazin -
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.
-- Alton Tobey -
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 -
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical
-- Amartya Sen -
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
-- Amartya Sen -
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
-- Amartya Sen -
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.
-- Amartya Sen -
Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
-- Amartya Sen -
All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.
-- Anastas Mikoyan -
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.
-- Andrew Natsios -
It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.
-- Andy Richter -
...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.
-- Angela Merkel -
I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
-- Anna Lindh -
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
-- Anna Lindh -
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 -
Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
-- Anne Truitt -
Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia -
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
-- Aristotle -
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
-- Arthur Cayley -
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.
-- Arthur Cecil Pigou -
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community
-- Arthur Dobrin -
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill , Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.
-- Asger Jorn -
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
-- Asger Jorn -
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
-- Ashley Montagu -
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
-- Atom Egoyan -
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
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 -
Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.
-- Barry Boehm -
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations,
-- Barry Boehm -
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
-- Barry Boehm -
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
-- Barry Commoner -
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
-- Bela Bartok -
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
-- Ben Heppner -
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
-- Benazir Bhutto -
Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,
-- Bernard Lonergan -
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?
-- Bill Joy -
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.
-- Bo Sanchez -
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.
-- Brett Hull -
In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
-- Brian Behlendorf -
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
-- Brian Eno -
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.
-- Brian Swimme -
All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!
-- Brian Tracy -
Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.
-- Brian Tracy -
We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.
-- Brit Hume -
Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.
-- Bruce Lee -
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
-- Bruce Sterling -
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
-- Buffalo Bill -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
-- Carl Jung -
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
-- Carol Moseley Braun -
The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.
-- Carol S. Dweck -
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.
-- Carroll Smith -
The truest success is but the development of self.
-- Charles Atlas
