“Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.” InspirationalSeemsFiveDevelopmentResearchDollarsBillionsApplesCopiesGoogleResearch And DevelopmentUp North Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealSchoolMillionsFiveProductsDevelopmentHighestModelsPercentThirdsThreatMeetingsRateDefeatPrimariesVietnamAsiaLiteracyGrossThird WorldBasic NeedsUnescoSecondary SchoolEnrollment Author:John Pilger
“Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?” MenGivingLife IsEducationFiveTeacherDevelopmentThousandHundredIndiaCreditFiftyGreat MenSalaryRupees Author:Narendra Modi
“Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.” WarWantedPeaceCasesFiveDevelopmentFascinatingArrested Author:Peter Ustinov
“Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.” ChildrenTwoSoulBodyCareBrainFiveDependsDevelopmentAttachmentReceivingBondingCaregivers Book:The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters Source: The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters
“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.” YearsChildrenAbleFatherAnimalMillionsFiveSonDevelopmentThousandDaughterYears AgoFunctionSpeciesMy DaughterMy SonCrucialThousand YearsPatriarchyFarmingCoveringShort TimeRoosters Author:Frank Pittman
“When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.” IfsDifficultFiveFourPlayerFeetStageColdDevelopmentContinuityBlanket Author:John Toshack
“The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours or a happier nation, the key is inner quality. Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace or any lasting happiness.” IfsWantHumansImportantEarthLife IsNationsHuman BeingsQualityFiveAchieveKeysDevelopmentImportant ThingsAffectionBillionsGenuineLastingThings In LifeNeighbourMillionaireMost Important Things In LifeHappier LifeLasting HappinessGenuine Happiness Author:Dalai Lama