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Growth Quotes
"If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Courage, compassion, and connection seem like big, lofty ideals. But in reality, they are daily practices that, when exercised enough, become these incredible gifts in our lives. And the good news is that our vulnerabilities are what force us to call upon these amazing tools. Because we're human and so beautifully imperfect, we get to practice using our tools on a daily basis. In this way, courage, compassion, and connection become gifts - the gifts of imperfection."
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"To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us."
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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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"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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"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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"Sow wisdom today, and you will reap success tomorrow."
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"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."
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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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"Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path."
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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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"Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life."
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"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."
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"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
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"Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear."
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"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."
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"It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent."
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"People spend their entire lives searching the world for the pieces that will make them whole, yet those pieces are only found within them."
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"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first."
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"I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of her mind and personality, whereas mine struck me as functionally separate, straining to describe a character I hoped to grow into."
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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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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."
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"Do your best, and be a little better than you are."
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"But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind."
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"You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore."
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"Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing."
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"If what you do doesn't make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential."
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"Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization."
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"These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen."
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"We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany."
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"And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement."
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"Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it."
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"Create new avenues in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose."
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"The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change."
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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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"Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger."
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"Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth."
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"Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that."
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