Developing Quotes - Page 13

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

Sebastian Junger

Warrior, Coward, Overcoming

7 Copy quote
Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

Steven Guilbeault

Country, Nice, Agency

5 Copy quote
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

Barbara W. Winder

Happiness, Determination, Cheer

7 Copy quote
An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

Malcolm Knowles

Responsibility, Self, Essentials

28 Copy quote
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

Damian Thompson

Country, Moving, Transition

4 Copy quote
I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

Rick Rollens

Country, Children, Father

4 Copy quote
Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

Thomas Ehrlich

Motivation, Mean, Skills

Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

59 Copy quote

Show source
I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

Geoff Davis

Iraq, Helpful, Situation

18 Copy quote
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

Lee Kuan Yew

Country, Honesty, Freedom

"Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

60 Copy quote

Show source
Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

Lester Bowie

Mistake, Cat, Thinking

4 Copy quote
In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

William R. Looney III

Military, Book, Organization

4 Copy quote
And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?

Chester Bowles

Independent, America, People

"The Conscience of a Liberal". Book by Chester Bowles, 1962.

4 Copy quote

Show source
Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

Henry A. Kissinger

War, Presidential, Administration

4 Copy quote
Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Rob Conway

Reality, Phones, Luxury

4 Copy quote
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

John Dewey

Reality, Inspire, Religion

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.26, Indiana University Press

4 Copy quote

Show source
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Zoltan Kodaly

Children, Reading, Giving

66 Copy quote
I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

Madeleine Peyroux

Song, Goal, Singing

4 Copy quote
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

Debbie Stabenow

Retirement, Believe, Goal

4 Copy quote
The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.

Rachael Bermingham

Motivational, Responsibility, Self Confidence

4 Copy quote
The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Jack Welch

Team, Player, Winning

26 Copy quote
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

Richard M. Nixon

Loyalty, Thinking, Nwo

7 Copy quote
And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

Barack Obama

Education, Teacher, Children

"Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals". Barack Obama's speech at the Take Back America 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, www.ontheissues.org. June 19, 2007.

68 Copy quote

Show source
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

Powerful, Brain, President

Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

77 Copy quote

Show source
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Thinking, Average

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

16 Copy quote

Show source
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

Jim Costa

Country, Cutting, Oil

8 Copy quote