Growth Quotes - Page 23

• It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Maturity, Hands, Training

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Mistake, Mind, Gone

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• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Block, Cutting, Innovation

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• Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

  Sergio Marchionne

  Mediocrity, Personal Growth

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• Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Helping Others, Childhood

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• There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.

  Clarence Robison

  Life, Spiritual, Law

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• Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

  Phil Bredesen

  Expansion, Economic, Continuing

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• Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

  Brenda Poinsett

  Struggle, Growing, Strive

  Brenda Poinsett (2000). “What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?: A Woman's Guide to Discovering Peace, Power, and Purpose After 40”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Giving, Innovation

  "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

  David Barford

  Taken, Years, Cities

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• Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Garden, Wicked

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• We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Change, Needs, Knows

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• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Beautiful, Native American, Blessing

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “My People the Sioux”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

  Viviane Reding

  Jobs, Reality, Europe

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• Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

  Andy Law

  Change, Giving Up, Forever

  Andy Law (1999). “Creative Company: How St. Luke's Became "the Ad Agency to End All Ad Agencies"”, Wiley

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• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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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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• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Jobs, Zero, Reality

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• Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

  Alan Robinson

  Successful, Organization, Ideas

  Alan G. Robinson (2009). “Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

  Francois Hollande

  Vision, Employment, Prosperity

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• 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.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Fighting, Reality

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• The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.

  Mike Thibault

  Team, Player, Reality

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• Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Destiny, Anxiety

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• It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mistake, Size, Problem

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• Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Is, Art Of Loving, Concern

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

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