Andrew Garfield  - Quotes

 I hope this period doesn't end. I hope I never blow up. I hope that I have to audition for every single job I want. I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger. 

Tags: development     


Muhammad Yunus  - Quotes

 I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. 

Tags: development   poverty     
Muhammad Yunus  - Quotes

 What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues. 

Tags: development   economics   poverty     


Vandana Shiva  - Quotes

 Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. 

Tags: development   environment     
Muhammad Yunus  - Quotes

 Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP). 

Tags: development   economics   poverty     
Aaron Gretsky  - Quotes

 Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. 

Tags: consistency   development   growth   ignorance   nuance     
Toba Beta  - Quotes

 It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,

but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.
 

Tags: collective   demand   development   knowledge   life   market   society   technology   truth     
Ian Smillie  - Quotes

 This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic. 

Tags: development   economics   microfinance   poor   poverty     
Naomi Klein  - Quotes

 The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers.  

Tags: development   financing   infrastructure     
David Wroblewski  - Quotes

 He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar, EVERYTHING came out, eventually, somehow. But the PROCESS  

Tags: childhood   development   distance   growth   insight   motherhood     
John Fitzgerald Kennedy  - Quotes

 To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. 

Tags: development   hope   inspiration   international   justice   peace     


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