“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.” ShouldCuttingDevelopmentProudResearchIncrediblesEdgesCorporationsBe ProudCutting EdgeResearch And Development Author:Bernie Sanders
“We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.” GivingPersonsChanceCasesDevelopmentTraumaCellsNeurons Author:Jill Bolte Taylor
“Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.” HumansLooksChildrenLossTalkingEnvironmentEffectsDevelopmentDiversityLowsEnvironmentalCurrentsGlobal WarmingOur FutureChemicalsSuppliesDosePostersHuman DevelopmentFood SupplyEnvironmental Science Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“What we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development. But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them. The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.” WorldWantShouldHas BeensCountryWholeProblemAbleStepsFocusSecurityDevelopmentWhole WorldRegionsResolveStabilityStep Up Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.” StoriesUniverseFatherDevelopmentEgoDiscoveryAbsolutesCosmicRepresentationIdealismAccompanyTranscendentalThesis Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.” PeopleWritingWellsMatterMy OwnInterestingStagePlanetsDevelopmentDramaStuckBeing TrueTeensFabulousMost InterestingTweensAbsolutely Fabulous Author:Lauren Myracle
“To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write.” WritingMindWellsKindReasonStyleDevelopmentEnormousProseElegantAppreciatedVeniceSuppleDeath In Venice Author:Philip Kitcher
“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.” PeopleNeedsUseHappensAbleGrowthDecisionInformationDevelopmentTrainingAdultsOppositesPersonal GrowthTreatedWorkplaceProfessional Development Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.” WayMindIdeasPhilosophyWholeUnderstandingRolesIssuesTheoryDevelopmentExcitingPhilosophicalEnterpriseSatisfyingCognitivePhilosophy Of ScienceArmstrongCognitive ScienceEarly WorkTheory Of Knowledge Author:Hilary Kornblith
“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindHas BeensDifferentViewsGroupsInformationDevelopmentNeededJudgmentScientistSignificantAppropriateRepresentativesFuture Development Author:Philip Kitcher
“The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to forgo their development, and that they can only afford to develop by consuming fossil fuels.” FactsProblemNationsPoorDevelopmentAppreciateHardestFuelFossilsConsumingFossil FuelPoor Nations Author:Philip Kitcher
“I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualMovingWealthPathDevelopmentTendenciesIsolatedSpiritual Path Author:Sakyong Mipham
“You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.” KnowsWayGovernmentLevelsResultsGrowingDevelopmentHealthyFindingsFunctionInstitutionsDistrustGoing To WorkRevealingGoverningBrazilProsecutorInvestigatorsDisenchantment Author:Simon Romero
“My journey has been very nice and gradual and steady. And I've found that my development as a human is very much synchronized to my journey as an artist. It's felt very organic since the beginning. And every step allows me to grow a little more.” HumansLittlesHas BeensArtistFoundGrowsFeltStepsNiceJourneyDevelopmentSteadyVery NiceEvery StepMy Journey Author:Jade Hassoune
“I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project.” StillsIdeasFilmActorsNovelDevelopmentCoupleProjectsDrawingComicCollaborationPencilsGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Jade Hassoune
“I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.” ThinkingGivingImportantCountryReligiousIssuesFocusPolicyCreationDevelopmentProjectsImportanceInternationalCongressDialogueCooperationOther CountriesPakistanReligious Freedom Author:Shahbaz Bhatti
“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.” ThinkingWayMadeProblemHandsMightWould BeMovingPurposeSituationStudyTheoryDevelopmentLaborHistoricalMalesMedicalSignificantOne WayTouchingEstablishmentCorpsesFeverGermsHands Up Author:Laura Mullen
“After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.” KnowsYearsFirstsBookWarHalfCenturyReadyDevelopmentAmountCoupleDecidedFinishedI RealizedEnormousPostsCivil WarTycoons Author:Charles R. Morris
“The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.” KindImportantGamesNamesNaturalEconomyShareCenturyDevelopmentLateResourcesScalesManufacturingPrecisionNatural ResourcesProcessingLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.” YearsNaturalDevelopmentIndustryResourcesPlantOilThirtyIronGrainCoalParadigmThirty YearsNatural ResourcesProcessingTimberRefineryLard Author:Charles R. Morris
“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.” KnowsYearsFirstsEnoughSpeakPathStageDevelopmentBehaviorHarderTwentiesFinalsChinaChineseExpertsPretendingChaptersPointingParallelsStages Of Development Author:Charles R. Morris
“Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.” CultureDevelopmentDigitalViralAnalog Author:Kode9
“I've been doing It's Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like "this is edgy," which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that's the difference.” WayFeelsYearsLittlesDifferentCharacterDifferencesDevelopmentScriptsDifferent WaysSensibilityCablesRelatableArrestedSunnyEdgyGrinder Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.” ThinkingMeanSelfCoursesWalksPathDevelopmentInevitableSelf DevelopmentRelapse Author:Philippa Perry
“The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.” WorldMeanDifferentWarStoriesRealityLeftEnemyRolesColdDevelopmentFoundationComplicatedAbsenceComplexityConfusedContinuingCold WarCompetingNeglectedStrands Author:Graham T. Allison
“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.” IfsDifferentFactsNextPleasurePowerfulEventsProduceDevelopmentTrumpAmountElementsAspectSizeNarrativeJudgedDispleasureSequencing Author:Antonio Damasio
“NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.” KnowsReasonDevelopmentResearchNo ReasonDoing NothingNasaSpaceflight Author:Burt Rutan
“I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.” PeopleTwoDifferentUseDifferencesDevelopmentResearchDifferent ThingsResearch And Development Author:Burt Rutan
“So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on the development project under construction to design meetings for an upcoming apparel delivery to acquisition meetings about projects we're looking to acquire. It's very diverse in terms of content, substance, and what I address on a typical day.” CoursesTermDesignDevelopmentProjectsMeetingsSubstanceAcquireAddressesTransitionConstructionDiverseTypicalAcquisitionDeliveryApparelUnder Construction Author:Ivanka Trump
“There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.” WorldJobsFunCitiesDevelopmentUrbanUrban Development Author:Juan Enriquez
“Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.” FormDevelopmentMetaphorTraditionalInventing Author:Edward Hirsch
“Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters.” WayCharacterUseFeelingsOrderLanguageFictionDevelopmentMetaphorRhythmFiction Writers Author:Edward Hirsch
“When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.” KnowsWorldWellsWarDevelopmentComputerMusicianMachinesTreatedCardsWar Of The WorldsElectricSecond World WarGreat MusicGreat MusicianGeneral Electric Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.” ChildrenImportantIndividualNationsCommunityEconomicDevelopmentHealthyUniqueResourcesInstitutionsLibraryEducationalContributionMuseumsScholarResearchersEconomic Development Author:Robert Cecil Martin
“Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsCreativeDevelopmentMusician Author:Carl Orr
“Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.” SelfHelpingTodaySelf HelpDevelopmentIndustryPersonal DevelopmentCoaching Author:Brendon Burchard
“When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character development. If you hear only what pleases you, and deal only with what thrills you, then you are burying your life in deadly poison.” IfsMindMatterCharacterDealsDevelopmentPleaseHearingPoisonTaoismOffensiveIrritatingCharacter DevelopmentBurying Author:Zicheng Hong
“Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.” PeopleTryingCharacterTeachPracticeSuccessfulDevelopmentOfficeMereStealingTaoismThievesConsideringSalaryTalkersPublic OfficeSuccessful Work Author:Zicheng Hong
“It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.” IfsPersonsSpiritualSpiritGrowthRealizingRichDevelopmentEssentialsSatisfiedDaily LifeSpiritual GrowthHinder Author:Esther Smith
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.” PeopleBookIdeasJusticeSinCenturyDevelopmentLateKillingScriptureChosenHated Author:John Shelby Spong
“The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.” ThinkingWayHas BeensMadeShowsInterestingQualitySourceDevelopmentInternetInfiniteSeriesIncrediblesAvailableSpeedMade ItCopiesZeroTapeSiteVery InterestingCdsDownloadsAudio Author:Ian MacKaye
“China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs. And therefore would have to say in our own interests, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of the development of the African continent.” NeedsProcessInterestDevelopmentChinaStableContinentsAfrican Continent Author:Thabo Mbeki
“But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.” IfsHumansLittlesProblemAbleIssuesLandDevelopmentCreaturesBenefitsForestsParksCrucialShoppingTransformedSuburbsMallsMeadowsStarbucksPasturesPeripheryMigrateGrizzliesYellowstoneElk Author:David Quammen
“Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine... And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.” PeopleKnowsWantCompanyMinesParticularDevelopmentIndianMassiveCoal Author:George Brandis
“The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.” WorldFirstsPovertyStruggleIssuesProgressModernStrangeDevelopmentThirdsIndiaSplitsCompelledEquationsReductionLinearModern ScienceManpowerLinear Equations Author:Vandana Shiva
“Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.” WritingMayTwoImportantFactsLiteratureBitsViewsPsychologyWrittenStageDevelopmentMajorsDrawsEthicsWeakAestheticContrastSensitivityTopicsAestheticsPsychologistStarksJungStages Of Development Author:James Hillman
“As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.” PeopleLooksFallThreeDemocracyDoorsMovementWallDevelopmentEuropeEasternGlobalizationBerlinEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallEurozoneFree Movement Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.” PeopleTechnologyExampleDevelopmentSouthAdmireKoreaSingaporeSouth Korea Author:Paul Kagame
“I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.” ThinkingOrderWishChallengesEconomicCenturyDevelopmentPreparedInitiative21st CenturyArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisEconomic Development Author:Colin Powell