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“Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. ...”
“One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obv...”
“Women have a role to play in global development.”
“Piaget-....A stage then, we may say, is an integrated set of operational structures that constitute the thought processes of a person at a given time. Development involves the transformation of suc...”
“Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.”
“Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”
“The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happine...”
“A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.”
“Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.”
“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experi...”
“With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.”
“The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.”
“In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.”
“Most people can’t seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development.”
“If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
“There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and celebrated in all the newspapers, invoked by zealous bureaucrats in every...”
“In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn’t be linear. Ours was a nest of concentric circles, and an enterprise was measured by its value to each circle, from the individual an...”
“Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor.”
“Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.”
“The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.”
