One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to...

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order...

When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others.”By helping others we help ourselves

Purpose expresses most deeply what makes you a unique individual. Your purpose defines who you are, how you live your life and how you lead. Your purpose provides you with inner strength and drive to...

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

It wasn’t science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from...

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one’s own accord – it feels great – but...

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret.

It’s not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas… The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

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...

Feedback is the breakfast of champions

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the...

Most economic histories of the “world” not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities...

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don’t be complacent with...

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to...

Because I’m emotionally immature, I’d prefer letting go of you early and always remembering you as you were, rather than hanging on and letting things develop and blossom and then eventually decay.

People leave managers, not companies

When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal...

Development is better than Girl-friend

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

I don’t like museums, I like labs.

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

You owe it to yourself to develop the real you out of your own gifts and enlarge your territories on influence. Don’t live in your own shadow. Live in your own you!

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything...

You can’t put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

La città di Leonia rifà se stessa tutti i giorni: ogni mattina la popolazione si risveglia tra lenzuola fresche, si lava con saponette appena sgusciate dall’involucro, indossa vestaglie nuove fiammanti, estrae dal più perfezionato frigorifero...

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...

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in...

This boy – his name was Eric – said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in...

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical...

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle...

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…

Life is a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way each day.The thing is you head up straight. And when you make that choice. And when you decide turn your back...

The Americans were constantly hectoring Africans about their behavior and values—protecting oneself against AIDS, limited family size, sleeping under mosquito nets. Chinese messages… focused on big, tangible things that fairly shouted: This stadium, this hospital,...

The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes increase to endanger life-systems at all levels in cascade effects;...

No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: It’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.