“In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.” IfsThinkingNeedsWellsLooksChildrenCountryMotherCoursesTermBornChildhoodDevelopmentPrimariesEducation SystemEarly ChildhoodBurmaPrimary Education Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.” ThinkingWholeChildhoodDevelopmentCostPrimariesBeneficialEarly ChildhoodPrimary Education Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people do unite together for the sake of our country, we can reach the development of our country in a very short time.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsCountryTogetherMilitaryDevelopmentPeriodsTransformationSakeOur CountryStabilityParticipationShort TimeBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.” IfsWayLooksLongHas BeensCountrySocialLeaderDevelopmentHigherAreasIndiaSouthEducationalPrimariesContrastAsiaAsianNeglectedHigher EducationOdditiesSouth AsiaPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.” Has BeensEconomicDevelopmentSouthEducationalDrivenFactorsMiserableDramaticExpansionAsiaEconomic DevelopmentThailandSouth Asia Author:Amartya Sen
“My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.” CountryAmericaChildhoodDevelopmentCommitmentProgramSignificantLatinLatin AmericaEarly Childhood Author:Shakira
“The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.” YearsFirstsChildrenImportantDevelopmentBehaviorEarning Author:Shakira
“After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.” SchoolSocialChildhoodDevelopmentAchievementMedicineAccessImprovementNutritionProvidingLifelongCognitiveStimulationEarly ChildhoodSocial Equality Author:Shakira
“A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.” NeedsChildrenPoorQualityChildhoodSpecialCollegeDevelopmentPercentHigh QualityEarly ChildhoodPoor ChildrenSpecial Education Author:Shakira
“I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites were taking from space were mapping the earth in a new way, making us feel like the globe we inhabit is much smaller than previously conceived of, in the human mind.” ThinkingWayFeelsMindHumansEarthSpaceTechnologyModernDevelopmentPhotographFascinatingHuman MindNew WaysGlobesSatellitesModern TechnologyMapping Author:Tom Hiddleston
“In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHumansMayLanguageStudyHuman NatureDevelopmentMajorsModelsAspectOrganizationFoundationStructurePropertyFeaturesCollectionsCognitiveLinguistics Author:Noam Chomsky
“Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.” TwoImportantCountryAbleEffortDangerousDevelopmentWeaponsIndiaNuclearIndianImmensePakistanConfrontationTollsTwo Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.” ThinkingWellsStatesReasonWholeGovernmentMightWould BeForceSocialUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulClearEconomicDevelopmentIndependentSouthBeing SuccessfulInternalsRegionsVietnamBrutalDocumentsEconomic DevelopmentTakeovers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region.” CountryForceSocialSuccessfulGroupsEconomicDangerousMovementDevelopmentModelsRegionsVietnamDominationIndigenousEconomic DevelopmentErosion Author:Noam Chomsky
“In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.” ThinkingWorldYearsCountryFactsHappensWould BeAmericaSocialViewsHalfWifeEconomicMinutesNew YorkDevelopmentYears AgoThirdsTrainMy WifePoint Of ViewYesterdayRidingSixtyOther CountriesFifteenTrafficBostonThird WorldSocial DevelopmentScandalousConnecticutThird World Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.” DevelopmentIndependentViruses Author:Noam Chomsky
“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.” StillsMovingCultureGrowthCommunityDemocracyEconomicDevelopmentBenefitsFlowBasesTransformationWorkersScalesPracticalsInstanceGoodsOwnershipInterventionPromotingCommonwealthGoods And Services Author:Gar Alperovitz
“In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.” NeedsStatesAmericaLevelsCitiesDevelopmentManagementStrategyStructureDemocraticWork OutLocalsOwnershipEcologicalCooperatives Author:Gar Alperovitz
“In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.” ThinkingShouldYearsHumansLooksEnoughSchoolDevelopmentArmyInvestingCorporations Author:Colin Powell
“[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.” Has BeensImportantStatesBigsMemoriesUnitedRoomsUnited StatesDevelopmentDecadesRussiaDepartmentNegotiationPillarsStandoffs Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.” GamesSidesTechnologyDevelopmentDestructionReducingStatesmenDevelopment Of Technology Author:Jaron Lanier
“To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.” ShouldWould BeTodayPastGivenLevelsMoralPovertyFocusDevelopmentAverageCurrentsIncomeOur TimeComparisonTechnologicalSevereAdministrativeTimes PastAppraisalPoverty Today Author:Thomas Pogge
“As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFirstsMovingSocialBuildingDevelopmentAspectRateBurdenHeavySocialismMoving ForwardAspireProsperousCubaSocial DevelopmentIndicatorsHeavy BurdensBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.” OrderSocialEconomicPolicyDevelopmentWesternUnfairAdjustmentSocial DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentVenezuelaNicaraguaBoliviaEcuador Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.” WorldFirstsMayStillsRealityTodayTermEconomyBrokenDevelopmentChinaGdpWorld Economy Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at least in the West, as a benevolent hegemon. In the non-West, the US was often perceived as a supporter of the colonial powers in their struggle to maintain control over their colonial possessions, and was viewed far more critically, especially by emerging elites that were more inclined to socialist development paradigms than to the capitalist ethos favoured by Washington.” WorldWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesStruggleDevelopmentEuropeWestPossessionWar Of The WorldsEstablishmentCapitalistElitesSocialistSupporterEmergingParadigmSecond World WarBenevolentReconstructionEthos Author:Richard A. Falk
“With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied 'political genocide', a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries.” CountryWould BeAmericaPoliticalChurchLeaderEffectsDevelopmentEuropeNegativeClaimsRelationMurderResponsibleIslamTrialsTendenciesIslamicGenocideFloridaPastorOutlookExtremistBeing ResponsibleNorth AmericaBe Encouraged Author:Richard A. Falk
“There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.” WorldChristianSpiritualLawChurchLinesModernExamplePossibilityDevelopmentInventionExceptionCowsSufismSteakSpiritual Development Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.” KnowsWorldNeedsStillsRunningSocialParentCommunityHavensDevelopmentAreasRapperPhilanthropyGrandparentTorchesSocial DevelopmentParents And Grandparents Author:Rhymefest
“I belong to a generation that had so many choices available. In 1970, when [former premier Robert] Bourassa launched the James Bay development project, nobody in Quebec asked whether we had the means to do it. Today could we launch another James Bay? Imagine the debates we'd have? We were a young, rich society with almost no debt. The generation that comes after us, and which will lead Quebec, must also have choices. And for that, they'll need financial manoeuvring room.” NeedsMeanTodayYoungChoicesRoomsRichImagineGenerationsDevelopmentProjectsFinancialAvailableDebtDebateFormerQuebec Author:Philippe Couillard
“Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].” CountryWatchesDevelopmentIncrediblesChina Author:George Osborne
“Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.” ThinkingHumansValuesIssuesRightsEconomicDevelopmentProudRaisesHuman RightsChinaBritishPartnersDialogueDiscussionMatureBe ProudDefendersEconomic Development Author:George Osborne
“In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.” WayWantDifferentHelpingCitiesStageDevelopmentTerribleTradeShouldersEmpiresRegionsCopiesTradingTerrible ThingsStages Of Development Author:Jane Jacobs
“The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.” IfsBuildingDevelopmentLuckyCodeIgnoredAffordableMandatesRedundancy Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.” EnergyDevelopmentJokesCurrentsRegimesSustainable DevelopmentEntropyHigh Energy Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.” DifferentShowsCitiesStageDevelopmentCopiesHypothesisTradingStages Of Development Author:Jane Jacobs
“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.” ThinkingShouldLongUseGoalTermNaturalCompanyHeardInfluenceDevelopmentAccountsIncludingLong TermAccountingIntegratingSustainable DevelopmentAccountants Author:Kofi Annan
“In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one lesson Western citizens can learn from those countries: treasure what you have. Use your rights and freedoms to effect the change you want.” WantCountryUseHandsDemocracyRightsEffectsDevelopmentCitizensLessonsWesternTreasureCraveRights And Freedoms Author:Kofi Annan
“One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role.” MayMomentsVisionRolesBloodDevelopmentAcknowledgeOutsidersOrganisationLeadership RolesNew Vision Author:Kofi Annan
“Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.” WorldWayLittlesBookDifferentEndsCharacterStoriesProblemActionWaitingLinesNiceMysteryStrangeAdventureDevelopmentDifferent WaysPlusResolutionExplorationSatisfyingVolumePackagesStand AloneCharacter DevelopmentTidyStrange World Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much America was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.” PeopleThinkingMindDoeHas BeensImportantIdeasAmericaSufferingPovertyRevolutionDevelopmentStartingHungerFolksResistanceAgentsActivistSparksUnemploymentPlugsEnslavement Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop thinking of themselves as model minorities and to identify themselves more with world revolution, which was very important in my development.” ThinkingWorldImportantWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesRevolutionDevelopmentModelsMinoritiesVietnamAsianVietnam WarAsian American Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.” ThinkingWholeTurnsFoundDevelopmentCitizensAreasMajorityEnginesNigeriaRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.” PeopleShouldHas BeensPastEnergyCitiesDevelopmentResourcesAreasDeprivedRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.” IfsMenMindChildrenEnergyDevelopmentHappeningsAreasFaultsAverageAverage ManGrandioseRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.” IfsLooksMadeRealCharacterStoriesHomeUsedMotherReligiousGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceBrotherDevelopmentPromiseDramaLove StoryPlotComing HomeRomantic LoveTwistsPacingReal CharacterWarner Brothers Author:Robert Cormier
“There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing is arrived at by very hard work. The joy of writing doesn't mean that you don't get the backaches and headaches and the days when it's not coming.” WritingBelieveMeanLittlesHardJoyI BelieveHard WorkDevelopmentI Believe InPlotHeadacheSerendipityBackache Author:Robert Cormier
“HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.” IssuesSecurityDevelopmentAidsHivHiv AidsHealth Issues Author:Kofi Annan