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Growth Quotes


"Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher."


"When you change your mind, you change your life."


"Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality."



"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."


"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."


"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."


"Those things that hurt instruct."


"Let your words to be a cushion to those who are around you, especially to those who are in a vulnerable state."


"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."


"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."



"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."


"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."


"Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life."


"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."


"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself."


"I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me."


"I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment."


"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."


"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."



"Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth."


"I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth."


"We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany."


"Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas."



"Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely."


"Healing occurs in the present, not the past. We're not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we'e not giving in the present. There's a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional home? This world is a dysfunction. However, there's nothing we've been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now. We can grow from any experience, and we can transcend any experience."


"When we follow what we love, we begin living according to our most admirable values. When we become still and silent, our intuition can teach us what it knows and act accordingly with assurance. And all that really matters is that we follow."


"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."


"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."


"Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect."


"Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all..."



"But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending."


"Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing."


"Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you."


"It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on."


"Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization."



"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."


"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple."


"We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue."


"In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater."


"I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible."
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