Development Quotes – Reflections on Growth and Progress

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

"I am open to my life becoming much better than I can even imagine."

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"Great results require great ambition."

Heraklit von Ephesos

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."

Steve Jobs

"If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small."

Azim Premji

"It’s not the mountains that lie before you that tire you out. It’s the pebble in your shoe."

Muhammad Ali

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom"

René Descartes

"You can only move forward if you keep going."

Unknown

"The best project you will ever work on is yourself."

Unknown

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

Steve Jobs

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

"Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied."

Dale Carnegie

"The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment."

Denise M. Morrison

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"Many tired old lies are being fed to secondary and college students through their textbooks and their brainwashed teachers, and to the general public through television receivers and daily newspapers. Despite the well-entrenched position of the pseudoscientists and their powerful allies in politics and the communications media, encouraging progress is being made by some scientists. Bit by bit the truth is emerging and the forces of censorship, moral intimidation and liberal bigotry are losing ground."

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"Your imagination can create a reality."

James Francis Cameron

"A truth can only take effect when the recipient is ready for it. Therefore, it is not the fault of the truth that people are still so full of folly."

Christian Morgenstern

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages"

Thomas Alva Edison