Growth Quotes - Page 13

• Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

  Bob Schaffer

  Economic, Burden, Reducing

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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

  Kevin Powers

  Prayer, Spring, War

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

  William H. Calvin

  Years, Atmosphere, Climate

  William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

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• We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Struggle, Opportunity

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• As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Opposites, Keys

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• 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Smart, Class, Differences

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• We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.

  Brent L. Top

  Spiritual, Determination, Yesterday

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Population

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Party, Rights

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• Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
  make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
  As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
  we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
  personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
  a part of our lives?

  Alan Kay

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Curiosity, Asking, Transformation

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• The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.

  Prince Charles

  Want, Growing, Demand

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• Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual, Real, Humility

  "Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging". Book by J. I. Packer, 2013.

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• The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Self, Purpose, Evolution

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Expression, Practice, Excellence

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, What Matters

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Important, Doctrine

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• A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

  Wes Jackson

  Exercise, Emotional, Land

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint

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• How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

  Rick Scott

  Cities, Community, States

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Weakness

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• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

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• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  Betty Eadie

  Teacher, Mistake, Challenges

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• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Math, Technology

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• When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.

  Jim Sinclair

  Reality, Fire, Development

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