Development Quotes

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

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

If better were within, better would come out.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.

All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.