Growth Quotes - page 2

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. (Yvon Chouinard)
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. View quote
Elihu Root
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. View quote
John Dewey
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. View quote
Bruce Lee
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet. View quote
Karen Blixen
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. View quote
Henry Miller
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. View quote
Martin Feldstein
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? View quote
Carl Rogers
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. (Robert Browning)
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
Angela Carter
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. View quote
Lewis Thomas
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. View quote
Herbert Read
I like to think a thought and then I like to follow it, like a little seed, for a long time and see where that growth leads me. Sometimes it leads me to an entirely different place from where it started and that gives me joy. View quote
Yiyun Li
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. View quote
Jean Vanier
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. View quote
Laozi
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. View quote
M. Scott Peck