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Growth Quotes
"That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership."
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"You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself."
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"Great things sometimes have small beginnings."
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"A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age."
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"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others."
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"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
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"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
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"Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."
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"You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation."
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"At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change."
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"Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that."
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"Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others."
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"Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character."
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"I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasionally getting your butt kicked as you respond, and if you're also figuring out how to stay open to feedback without getting pummeled by insults, I'm more likely to pay attention to your thought about my work. If, on the other hand, you're not helping, contributing, or wrestling with your own gremlins, I'm not at all interested in your commentary."
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"Even so did you feel yourself swept away by that inward migration about which no one had ever said a word to you. A great wind swept through and delivered from the matrix the sleeping prince you sheltered- man within you. You are the equal of the musician composing his music, of the physicist extending the frontier of knowledge you have reached an altitude where all loves are of the same stuff."
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"When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters."
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"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do-back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning."
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"If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself-to his reason and his conscience-and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation."
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"Its not about reaching a Peak but to develop an attitude of discovering new Peaks in Life!"
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"You need to understand what there is inside you."
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"Doing what others have done is skill. Dong what few have done is talent. Doing what none have done is genius. Going where others have gone is competence. Going where few have gone is excellence. Going where none have gone is transcendence."
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"Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone."
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"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
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"It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
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"Never mock a cub, one day it will become a lion."
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"The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient. If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth."
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"I'm out of health potions. Retreat! Retreat! Give me some of your health potions! I screamed. 'I don't have any potions. Run, bitch, run, Brody squealed. The red ran out on my health and my assassin was transported, stripped of everything we'd earned, back to the starting camp. 'I'm dead! Fuck, they killed me!"
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"He didn't want the respect of people who weren't worth wiping his nose on-people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him."
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"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."
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"Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different."
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"Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale."
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"Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification."
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"With the right MINDSET, you can Survive, Thrive & Grow... Even in the Midst of turbulence and change."
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"You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson. You have not lost if you have helped one new person. You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle."
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"The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil."
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"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
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"A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level."
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"You only encounter problems that You can handle!!!!"
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"Strength is not determined by the looks but through action."
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"I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us."
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"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."
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"There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl."
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