Growth Quotes - Page 62

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

I think growth covers up mistakes.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life nothing more than a laboratory product, love only chemistry, and development nothing more than a form of growth.

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

Cancer research is a growth industry.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.