Quotes on Development

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Author: Lord Acton

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Author: Fiona Apple

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

Author: Will Arnett

Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

Author: Will Arnett

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

Author: John Astin

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

Author: Alan Autry

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Author: Spencer Bachus

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

Author: John Baldacci

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Author: Roy Barnes

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

Author: Standing Bear

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

Author: Rand Beers

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Author: Michael Behe

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

Author: Howard Berman

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

Author: John Bernal

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

Author: Buffalo Bill

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Author: Bjork

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Author: David Bohm

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Author: Kit Bond

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

Author: Omar Bongo

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

Author: Omar Bongo

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Author: Carol Braun

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

Author: Gordon Brown

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Author: Gavin Bryars

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Author: John Carmack

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Author: Robert Casey

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Author: Arthur Cayley

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Author: Jay Chiat

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

Author: Roy Clark

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

Author: Roy Clark

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Author: Benjamin Cohen

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Author: Barry Commoner

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

Author: Michael Cooper

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Author: Jim Courier

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

Author: David Coverdale

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

Author: Hart Crane

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

Author: James Cronin

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

Author: George Cuvier

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

Author: Richard Daley

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Author: Nathan Deal

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Author: Jared Diamond

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

Author: Thomas Disch

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Author: Christopher Dodd

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

Author: Marjory Douglas

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

Author: Jan Egeland

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Author: Jenna Elfman

Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

Author: John Engler

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

Author: Recep Erdogan

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Author: Arthur Erickson

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

Author: Donald Evans

I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Author: Donald Evans

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Author: Donald Evans

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Author: Laurent Fabius

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Author: Lion Feuchtwanger

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

Author: Vincent Frank

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

Author: Vincent Frank

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

Author: Dave Freudenthal

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Author: Jesse Garrett

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Author: Andre Gide

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Author: Norman Granz

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Author: Ursula Guin

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

Author: Albert Hart

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Author: Jeff Hawkins

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.

Author: Hermann Helmholtz

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

Author: Martin Henderson

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Author: Hans Hofmann

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

Author: Tim Holden

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

Author: Tim Holden

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.

Author: Jose Horta

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Author: Jose Horta

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

Author: Jose Horta

I think VAR is a very healthy development within the industry.

Author: John Hull

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Author: Brit Hume

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

Author: Claudio Hummes

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Author: Aldous Huxley

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Author: Josefa Iloilo

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Author: Alphonso Jackson

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Author: Bruce Jackson

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

Author: C. James

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Author: Bobby Jindal

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

Author: Stephanie Jones

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Author: Kato Kaelin

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Author: Paul Kagame

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Author: Robert Kaplan

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

Author: Michael Kinsley

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

Author: Tom Kite

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Author: Alexis Korner

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

Author: Lajos Kossuth

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Author: Christian Lange

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Author: Christopher Lasch

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

Author: Ernest Lawrence

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

Author: Ang Lee

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Author: Tim Lee

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Author: Aldo Leopold

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

Author: Arthur Levitt

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Author: Joe Lieberman

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Author: Anna Lindh

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Author: Anna Lindh

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

Author: Anna Lindh

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Author: Alice Longworth

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Author: Alice Longworth

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

Author: Mike Lowry

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Author: Tran Luong

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Author: Rosa Luxemburg

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Author: Rosa Luxemburg

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Author: Trofim Lysenko

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

Author: Trofim Lysenko

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Author: Wangari Maathai

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Author: Ann Macbeth

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Author: Norman Macleod

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Author: Henry Maine

Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known.

Author: Loris Malaguzzi

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

Author: Ernest Mandel

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

Author: Ernest Mandel

We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal.

Author: Kenny Marchant

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

Author: Marc Maron

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Author: Rollo May

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Author: Thom Mayne

I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

Author: Norma McCorvey

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Author: Claude McKay

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

Author: Robert Menendez

In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.

Author: David Milne

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Author: Ashley Montagu

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

Author: John Moody

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Author: Johann Most

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

Author: Frank Murkowski

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Author: Frank Murkowski

I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

Author: John Murray

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Author: John Murray

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

Author: Alva Myrdal

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Author: Andrew Natsios

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

Author: Eleanor Norton

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Author: Barack Obama

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.

Author: Andrew Oliver

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

Author: Jim Otto

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

Author: Paul Parker

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Author: M. Peck