Growing Quotes - Page 28

• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

  "The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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• With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

  Gail Sheehy

  Thinking, Games, People

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• One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Art, Substance, Stones

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• As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Bird, Together, Population

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• It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Men, Pyramids

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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• But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

  Prince Philip

  Reality, Population, Able

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• Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.

  Leopold Stokowski

  War, Heart, Simple

  "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

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• Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Uplifting, Hands, Heaven

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• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Age, Events

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

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• We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.

  Scott McNealy

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

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• With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.

  Bob Hayes

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

  Ruth Rendell

  Light, Invisible, Sweetness

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• We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

  Loretta Young

  Growing Up, Discipline, Facts

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• Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.

  Jared Bernstein

  School, Play, Competition

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• We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.

  John Day

  War, Growing Knowledge, Elements

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• That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

  Tom Segev

  Attitude, People, Childhood

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• You don't grow the economy by growing government.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Government, Economy, Grows

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• I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Growing Up, Humble, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

  Bernie Mac

  Growing Up, Men, Kind

  Bernie Mac (2001). “I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is”, MTV Books

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• It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Silly, Thinking

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• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

  El-P

  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

  Ricky Gervais

  Brother, Memories, Growing Up

  "Ricky Gervais Calls CEMETERY JUNCTION His SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Plus Info on His New HBO Animated Series". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 16, 2009.

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