Growth Quotes - Page 32

Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Grow within the flow.

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation's lower than expected, bonds go up.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person in the mirror.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

Develop what you lack.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.