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Growth Quotes


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


"The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes."



"But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today."


"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."


"You need to understand what there is inside you."


"The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.There are always more."


"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."


"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."


"Always grow with changes and not against them."


"Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment."


"Of course you have passions and talents. Of course you have some purpose in the world. Your emotions are guiding you towards it. Each time you discover something that you like or something that you hate, you discover yourself. Everyone can do this. If you didn't like some things more than others, you'd be living in a sewer eating grass. More often than not, it's those things you think are too weird, too personal, or too imperfect that you must share. The world does not await your perfection. It awaits your courage and your honesty. Let yourself be seen."


"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."


"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal."


"I've learned something peculiar in my life, every time rejection comes on my way; my break through shows up. Now I'm sort of enjoying rejection, so bring it on, I'm ready to celebrate my break through and I'm grateful to those who reject me."


"Authenticity is imperative, it brings forth respect,trust, love and confidence. This simply means you'll be respected, trusted, loved by many people and you'll be confident enough to take a first step towards your dreams. It also gives you independent thinking and understanding of things in general. Just be you, live original and you'll benefit great things from it."


"Change is hard. Logically, we know what we should do, but our feelings about doing it make our decision for us. How you feel in the moment is almost never aligned with your goals and dreams. If you only act when you feel like it, you will never get what you want.You must learn how to separate what you feel from the actions that you take.You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act."


"Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings."


"When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours."


"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."


"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."


"Sometimes others narcissism will take place of your happiness. Don't let it happen."


"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."


"So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure."


"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."


"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."


"Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth."


"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival."


"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."


"For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own."


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



"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."


"That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership."


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


"Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!"


"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."


"Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth."


"You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time."


"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."


"It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it."


"If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion."


"I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million."
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