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Growth Quotes
"Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility."
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"If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel."
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"The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency."
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"The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformation. A figurative drip, drip, drip. Showing up, every single day, gaining in strength, organizing for the long haul, building connection, laying track - this subtle but difficult work is how culture changes."
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"Life is all about conversion."
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"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."
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"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment."
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"Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself."
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"Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of "a friend, "a person I know, "a place I was at. When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr. Pembroke, who was half way through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation, nor why with such awkwardness he should pronounce the harmless dissyllable "Ansell."
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"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."
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"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."
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"Right!"Right!"You can get there!"I can get there!"You're a natural at counting to two!"I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!"If you can count to two, you can count to anything!"If I can count to two, I can count to anything!"And then the world is your mollusc!"My mollusc! What's a mollusc?"
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"Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!"
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"All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none."
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"Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support."
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"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. 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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"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."
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"What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer."
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"One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency'."
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"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime."
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"Fear is a GPS for where your soul most wants to go."
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"Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything."
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"You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it."
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"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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"The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth."
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"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay."
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"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
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"Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth."
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"If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion."
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"We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
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"For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire."
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"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services."
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"Create new avenues in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose."
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"Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives..."
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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"Old habits for old people, reinvent yourself while you still can!"
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"Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else."
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"The strongest principle of personal development is every person's ability to make conscious decisions how to act and determine what purpose he or she attempts to fulfill. People with a fixed mindset believe that their basic personal qualities such as intelligence, talent, and other skills are traits that are predetermined or fixed and they ignore opportunities for personal development. A person's growth mindset represents a belief that there are certain basic qualities that a person can cultivate through applied effort, if they exhibit a passion for learning, a resolute willingness to stretch their personality, and through fortitude make personal improvement despite experiencing initial hardships."
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