Growth Quotes - page 56

Ministries that focus on manufacturing spiritual experiences may actually be retarding spiritual growth by making people experience-dependent. (Skye Jethani)
The empowered mind allows problems to seed personal growth. View quote
Steve Maraboli
All resistance bears within it the seeds of growth, experience, and wisdom. View quote
Steve Maraboli
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them. View quote
Brittany Murphy
Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher. View quote
John Shadegg
Poverty is a terrible thing when it bows to the very ground the pride of the strong man-a terrible thing when it leaves old age destitute: till, the strong man may yet redeem his fortunes, and that old age may have had enjoyment while it was capable of enjoying. But a child, with the step slow from weakness, which from its age should be so buoyant; a cheek thin and white from hunger, at a period which especially cares for food (for all children are greedy); a form shrivelled with cold; a growth stopped by work too laborious for such tender years; a spirit broken by toil, want, and harshness; -is not such a child poverty's most miserable spectacle? It is, however, a common one. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You fill your own mind with evil thoughts instead of good; and so you hinder your own growth, and make yourself, for those who can see, an ugly and painful object instead of a beautiful and lovable one. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth. View quote
Norman Mailer
Our growth rate continues to be staggering. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy. (Steve Ballmer)
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. View quote
David Attenborough
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School. View quote
Philip Johnson
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Were the ends of a person already explicit, there would be no room for development, for growth, for life; and consequently there would be no personality. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success. View quote
Lucan
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth. View quote
Willem Dafoe
In general, growth is an intrinsic source of change with potentially unintended effects and some subunits are better positioned than others to protect themselves against such effects. Oligarchical tendencies are present in almost all membership-based organizations, such as unions and voluntary associations, and if unchecked, can lead to transformations. Organizations with diffuse goals or innovative leadership are sometimes able to survive the crisis of complementing their original mission by moving onto other goals. (Howard E. Aldrich)
I have said that God is pleased with nothing but love; but before I explain this, it will be as well to set forth the grounds on which the assertion rests. All our works, and all our labours, how grand soever they may be, are nothing in the sight of God, for we can give Him nothing, neither can we by them fulfil His desire, which is the growth of our soul. As to Himself He desires nothing of this, for He has need of nothing, and so, if He is pleased with anything it is with the growth of the soul; and as there is no way in which the soul can grow but in becoming in a manner equal to Him, for this reason only is He pleased with our love. View quote
John of the Cross
A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. View quote
Martin Feldstein
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. View quote
Henry Way Kendall
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. View quote
Ambrose Bierce