Development Quotes - Page 2

• The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

  Jay Nixon

  School, People, Support

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• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Skills, Growth, India

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• The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Uplifting, Helping, Students

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Character, Judging

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

  James Anthony Froude

  Spiritual, Father, Progress

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• There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

  John Dewey

  Intelligent, Discipline, World

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.114, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

  Joyce Brothers

  Real, Commitment, Love Is

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• Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

  John Burroughs

  Mean, Men, Perfect

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs: I-[XV] ...”

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• Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Building Up, Democracy

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• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Acquisition

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Desire, Turns

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Men

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• The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

  Maria Montessori

  Growth, Levels, Birth

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• It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Emotional, Rose

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• Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Doe, Way

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• Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

  Tom Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Important

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I love the creative process of the research, development, but I love also when it comes to reality, it has to be an experience. I don't care if it is an experience while you are trying something on, whether you are in a physical place, or whether you are online kind of playing, I love that you can create stories and atmospheres wherever you are.

  Christopher Bailey

  Reality, Creative, Atmosphere

  Source: www.theblondesalad.com

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• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Survival, Too Much

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."

  Dean Spade

  White, People, Black

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

  Dean Spade

  Study, Scholarly, University

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• I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Support, Black

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

  Donovin Darius

  Athlete, School, College

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, People, Strategy

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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