Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Bakunin

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Paul Hawken

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

Pranab Mukherjee

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

Pierre Omidyar

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

Nelson Mandela

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

Ha-Joon Chang

Culture changes with economic development.

Ha-Joon Chang

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

Ken Wilber

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Keri Russell

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

Ken Robinson

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Ethan Hawke

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Hans Hofmann

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

James Bryant Conant

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

Jamais Cascio

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

James G. Frazer

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Ernest Hemingway

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Erwin Schrodinger

The stages of human development are to strive for:(1) Besitz [Possession](2) Wissen [Knowledge](3) Können [Ability](4) Sein [Being

Christopher Lasch

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Health is the core of human development

Hugh Miller

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

Eugene Wigner

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

Nikola Tesla

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

Niels Bohr

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Mae Whitman

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.

John Pople

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Thelma Drake

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Thabo Mbeki

China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent.

Margaret Heffernan

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

Oscar Wilde

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

Daisaku Ikeda

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Claude McKay

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

Hillary Clinton

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

Hassan Nasrallah

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.