{"quotes":[{"text":"Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","children","development","growing-pains","growing-up","hope-and-despair","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":1338,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ian Smillie","tags":["development","economics","ian-smillie","microfinance","poor","poverty"],"id":2213,"author_id":"Ian+Smillie"},{"text":"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. 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Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","artist","chance","change","chronological-snobbery","commitment","conservative","consistency","dedication","development","distaste","fear","improvement","liberal","mastery","new","new-age","old","original","perception","perfection","perseverance","persistence","perspective","progression","taste","tradition","understanding","unknown","young"],"id":6685,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["development","foolishness","humility","learning","pride","teaching"],"id":6898,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! It's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS.","author":"Rashedur Ryan Rahman","tags":["achievements","attitude","banking","be-positive","believe","building-relationship","business","career-development","class","coach","coaching","college","commerce","commercial","communication","confidence","corporate","country","culture","desire","development","dream-big","dreams","economics","excellence","excellencemind","faith","fashionable","finance","focus","goals","gratitude","grow","happiness","hope","humans","industry","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","international","job","kindness","knowledge","learning","lesions","life","life-style","love","luxury-life-style","management","mind","mindfulness","modern","motivation","motivational-speaker","persistence","personal-branding","personal-development","personal-growth","personal-skills-development","personal-transformation","philosophy","podcast","positive","positive-attitude","power","programs","quotes","read-books","relationships","romance","school","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-motivation","skills","smart","social-media","society","study","success","technology","think-big","time","trainer","training","travel","travelling","trust","university","video"],"id":7571,"author_id":"Rashedur+Ryan+Rahman"},{"text":"Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["character","development","learning","life"],"id":7704,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Interestingly, do you know who is the most difficult person to love? It is easy to love friends and not too difficult to love those less fortunate than ourselves. It certainly isn't easy loving enemies, but sometimes the person most difficult to love is the one who is MORE fortunate than we are. The one who receives the promotion we deserved. The one who gets the recognition we desired, the honor we sought or the affections of the lover we had hoped to win. It is easy to resent those who seem to be more fortunate – those who “get all the breaks.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["development","emotions","envy","harmony","hatred","jealousy","love","love-of-neighbor","loving","loving-others","resentment"],"id":9552,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":485,"pages":49,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}