Development Quotes

• It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

  Alan Cooper

  Jobs, Thinking, Might

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• ...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
  These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
  Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
  And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Moving

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• Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Levels, Gaining Power

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• When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

  Alexander Gould

  Character, Stories, Able

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• Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Sacrifice, Personality

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• Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Thinking

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• In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

  James Gunn

  Events, Fiction, Fantastic

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• Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Plato, Men, Understanding Nature

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.

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• When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Struggle, Mind

  "Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate". Book by J. M. Cohen, 1987.

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• 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.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Water

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• Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

  Liya Kebede

  Rights, Long, Generations

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" - which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Believe, Mean, Past

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.

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• Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.

  Joseph McCabe

  Religious, Struggle, Past

  "The Human Origin of Morals". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1926.

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• I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

  Jose Peralta

  Community, Focus, Want

  "Peralta plan: Biz, Ed, Jobs - Boro's 1st Hispanic state lawmaker eager to start" by Donald Bertrand, November 07, 2002.

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• Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Strong, School

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• Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Determination, Goal, Focus

  Paul J. Meyer (2002). “Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success”, Moody Pub

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• There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

  Graham Cooke

  Greatness, Self, Government

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• Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Doe, Needs, Attention

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Business, Men, Blood

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• Teacher training institutes should impact training of our nation's teachers in a manner that encourages them to support the holistic development of the child and to continuously refine their own skills to create the best possible learning environments for our children.

  Shaheen Mistri

  Teacher, Children, Skills

  "The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right - India". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.

  Dave Cutler

  Running, Memories, Real

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• There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

  Booker T. Washington

  Defense, Highest, Security

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Alzheimer's, Race

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.

  Pope Paul VI

  Wisdom, Strong, Successful

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Art, Reality, Views

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