“It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that, but there would however be sidelong comparisons frequently in press commentary. And it was also pretty quickly obvious that no other countries were developing the kind of technological depth of industry as were the US and the UK.” PeopleKindSaidCountryWantedIndustryBeatsPressesDepthObviousDevelopingComparisonOther CountriesTechnologicalCommentary Author:Charles R. Morris
“It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status. Governments have to let go, people start insisting on following their own lights, etc.” PeopleMayCountryLightGovernmentClassMiddleLetting GoFollowingHardestDevelopingEtcMiddle ClassTransitionInsistingDeveloping CountriesClass Status Author:Charles R. Morris
“I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.” BelieveBookTogetherSocialDifficultEconomicHugeAdvantageImpactInequalityDevelopingBeing Together Author:Michael Emerson
“If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.” IfsWorldNeedsBelieveEnergyAchieveBuildingIndustryStandardsDeserveResourcesDevelopingMetalsIf You BelieveStandards Of LivingMinerals Author:Peter Diamandis
“As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.” WayCountryHelpingUseGrowsClearOffersToolsBiggerTablesTradeRoundsDevelopingWealthyTradersBargainingOld WaysDeveloping Countries Author:Daniel Altman
“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.” IfsThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStatesLastsFacesTermChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEconomicBuildingParticularApproachEuropeHistoricalAidsDevelopingLong TermAgricultureProximityLong Term RelationshipHistorical Context Author:Dambisa Moyo
“We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensGrowthPlanetsSevenBillionsDeveloping Author:Kevin Bales
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.” KindDoeSeemsLinesAreasSurpriseCornersDevelopingBe KindTrendsCognitiveAround The CornerCognitive Science Author:Louis Menand
“You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.” CountryCareTodayBreakTakenChildhoodHavensValuableDevelopingAutomobileDeveloping Countries Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.” ImportantRealFashionNew YorkCommunicationFinanceDevelopingVentureInfrastructureTourism Author:Juan Enriquez
“In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.” PeopleWellsUseTurnsVersionsOptimisticDevelopingAlgorithmsDeep Learning Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.” KnowsCharacterStoriesOrderFictionKnow HowPoetCreatingStructureDevelopingNarrativeFiction WritersNarrative Structure Author:Edward Hirsch
“we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.” WayKindShowsComedyProducersDevelopingFestivalsMomentumMelbourneTroupe Author:Brian Henson
“I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner” KnowsWorldBelieveKindChildrenImportantHardYoungMotherTurnsFightingParentAttitudeGoneHusbandParentingEndureDevelopingRoughBe KindDelightfulCheerfulBeing A MotherYour HusbandLove And FriendshipKinds Of LoveYoung MotherWhiners Author:Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.” PeopleLongDoneHelpingYoungWinningGoalTermInterestLosesLeadershipFocusDevelopingLong TermLong Term Goals Author:Bradford Winters
“Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.” ApproachPatienceDevelopingMethodology Author:Allan Lokos
“PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.” WayDoneTodayJobsRiskTomorrowEssenceManagementDevelopingBetter WaysRisk Management Author:Brian L. Joiner
“Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.” SaidEndsChristianitySawsDevelopingIncapable Author:John Shelby Spong
“Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.” ImportantInterestingStyleDevelopingVery Interesting Author:Robert Barry
“When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsCertainGrowsOne ThingAccountsIncreaseProductionsDevelopingMeatRelatedDimensionsMilkHousingScarcityExternalities Author:Vandana Shiva
“For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.” IdeasRightsDiversityIntellectualPropertyResistanceDevelopingRegimesMonopolySaying NoProperty RightsPatentsContinuationBiodiversityIntellectual PropertySatyagrahaCooperating Author:Vandana Shiva
“At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange.” MomentsSeeingThreatIncludingAgentsDevelopingCorporationsToxicOrangeComponentsEmergenceBiotechHerbicidesAgent Orange Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.” IfsWantNationsPoorDevelopingCynicalAgain And Again Author:Paul Kagame
“I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.” PlansLeavingBoatDevelopingJohnson Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.” WorldWayHomeCommunityParticularConnectedDeveloping Author:Sophia Bush
“When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsLooksImportantWaterTalkingViolenceCleanAccessVulnerableAround The WorldDevelopingRegionsCarbonEmissionsFootprintClean WaterCarbon Footprint Author:Sophia Bush
“Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things.” WayPerspectiveHealthyApproachObstaclesHardestDevelopingPerspective On Things Author:Adam Rodriguez
“You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.” PeopleThinkingYearsCountrySimpleResultsMillionsDependsCookingBillionsSmokeDevelopingCooksRangeOur FamilyMealsKitchenFuelGasToxicElectricExposurePrematureThink TwiceDeveloping CountriesKnobsPremature Death Author:Kathy Calvin
“I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program.” PeopleCountryTodayPresidentMillionsAliveProudMajorsProgramCrisisResponseInternationalAidsDevelopingReliefLive For TodayDeveloping CountriesPresident George W Bush Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.” StoriesFeelingsActionMovingHouseAwarenessMindfulnessDevelopingGuestsTaking ActionThoughts And FeelingsContainersHouse Guests Author:Barnet Bain
“We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.” IfsMenHumanityGirlBoysResourcesIncludingDevelopingEmpoweringOur Society Author:Sally Kohn
“I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention. Inevitably, there were certain common denominators which are fairly common to all developing societies, perhaps to all societies: that quality education be accessible to everyone, not just a limited elite few; the sustainable conservation of natural resources; the full engagement of women in national development; and the value of cross-cultural exchange and understanding to international relations.” TryingYearsFirstsCountryCertainValuesProcessUnderstandingNaturalCommonAttentionQualityDevelopmentNeededResourcesCrossesRelationInternationalDevelopingGapsEngagementElitesConservationInternational RelationsJordanNatural ResourcesCommon DenominatorQuality EducationCultural Exchange Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.” ThinkingFeelsShouldSaidBookRememberFilmReadingNamesMovedEnvironmentalForgottenStoresForestsHeyDevelopingFriendlySectionsGood MovieGreat BookHey YouNova ScotiaNovasHalifax Author:Ellen Page
“It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.” ThinkingGivingMayEnoughSeemsPowerfulHatredMethodToleranceBuddhistDevelopingSystematic Author:Dalai Lama
“We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.” WorldLooksStatesJobsCausesUnitedNumbersUnited StatesEconomicAmountDiseaseApproachDevelopingDisability Author:Melinda Gates
“The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTwoStatesProblemKidsDiesUnitedUnited StatesHugeAround The WorldDevelopingTwo ThingsKillersPneumoniaDiarrhea Author:Melinda Gates
“We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.” MenWorldTryingLooksDoeCountryProblemHoursTalkingRolesFiveDevelopingGapsRecognizingTrying To ChangeMumbai Author:Melinda Gates
“Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.” IfsWorldStillsEnergyWaterCan DoDifferencesHugeSafeCleanDevelopingFuelCollectingOvensClean EnergyFirewood Author:Melinda Gates
“In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.” WorldMeanHardHelpingKidsSchoolPayCircumstancesHusbandPhonesExpectedAccessSavingDevelopingDigitalPlasticSaving MoneyFeesSmartphones Author:Melinda Gates
“If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.” IfsWorldLooksHelpingStoriesDifferencesDevelopingFundLoan Author:Melinda Gates
“If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.” IfsMenWorldHomeCareKidsJobsMovingAsksLeftChanceCitiesDevelopingGood Job Author:Melinda Gates
“Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.” MenWorldIssuesDevelopingSanitation Author:Melinda Gates
“You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.” WayMindGrowsBrainCreativeAwarenessAreasConnectionsMirrorsCellsDevelopingEvolveExpansionPathwaysBrain Cells Author:Deepak Chopra
“In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything.” ThinkingHumansKindArtImportantSchoolBrainSupportFieldsSkillsMathematicsFactorsDevelopingReasoningPromotingPublic SchoolMotorCognitiveHuman BrainArt And ScienceCoordination Author:Reggie Watts
“The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.” RealHelpingValuesChoicesAttentionLeaderTalentSmartDrawingCoreDevelopingAspirationTunesCore ValuesSmart Choices Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“I don't think that the leadership of Montgomery was prepared to capitalize, let's put it, on the projection that had come out of the Montgomery situation. Certainly, they had not reached the point of developing an organizational format for the expansion of it. So discussions emanated, to a large extent, from up this way.” ThinkingWaySituationPreparedDevelopingDiscussionExpansionProjectionFormatOrganizationalMontgomery Author:Ella Baker
“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.” ThinkingHas BeensEnergySourceTrumpTaxesSpeechIntellectualTradeStructureFavorsCampaignsImmigrationReformDevelopingConsistentTrailsFree TradeEnergy SourcesTax ReformFrackingHydraulic Fracturing Author:Avik Roy
“One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.” WorldPropertyDevelopingParadoxMassiveGlobalizationReduction Author:Tony Blair