Growth Quotes
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
No matter how much love is there, these aren't two people who are actually good for each other. They don't help each other grow. They stifle each other's growth.
Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.
Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.
Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
I enjoy growth; I enjoy having a lot of different experiences. And I don't think I am the kind of guy who'd like to do the same thing every day for 40 years.
For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.
When I think back to 2005, the fast growth markets - what we call the fast growth markets - were probably ten percent of our business. They are now 31 percent.
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.
In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.
If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.