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Growth Quotes
"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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"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
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"Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth."
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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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"The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made."
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"In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs."
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"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."
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"The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline."
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"Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support."
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"Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched."
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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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"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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"It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction."
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"Jiu Jitsu opened up doors in my mind that public education had bolted shut. In hindsight, I see just how superficial my thoughts had been prior to this art. It is no coincidence that my efforts in reading and writing have run parallel with this craft. I began training Jiu Jitsu at twenty-two, and at the time of this writing I am about to turn thirty. I have learned more in the past eight years than the previous twenty-two, and have no doubts that Jiu Jitsu opened up my mind in a way traditional organized education never could. Jiu Jitsu gave me a life when I didn't know how to live. It is the best thing I have ever done, and is the foundation upon which all I will do."
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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 difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery."
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"Her thought encased in a cocoon of desire. She allows the streams of sunlight to warm the core of her being while she waits for metamorphous."
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"It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone."
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"Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings."
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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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"Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life."
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"A challenge only makes you stronger, wiser and a better person than you was yesterday."
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"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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"Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses."
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"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
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"When you change your mind, you change your life."
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"Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon."
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"So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower."
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"I've learned that in order to effectively and genuinely "Change" for the better.#1. Must want to change. (Grow)#2. Know who we are now relative to who we want to be.#3. Paradoxically we must except who we are in the present moment. (You are worthy right now, you are just searching for a higher a 'self')#4. Know that "True" change comes from within the mind. To the much deeper 'self' feelings and emotions.#5. Make no drastic changes, but focus simply on making small ones within the present moment.Sincerely,My present self."
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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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"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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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
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"The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth."
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"You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you."
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"To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back."
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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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"She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two."
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"Everything you go through grows you."
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