...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.
Interpretation
Changing one's environment can unlock potential that leads to high achievement.
This quote by Muhammad Yunus emphasizes the profound impact that environmental conditions can have on human behavior and capability. It suggests that when individuals are placed in an empowering environment that fosters motivation and support, they can achieve exceptional results that would have seemed impossible in a less supportive context.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to encourage teams to improve their work environment.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
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.
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
I believe God wants you to know that you can remain in your present idea about yourself, or you can choose again. I like the idea of choosing again. Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
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