Growth Quotes - Page 25

• 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 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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• Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

  William H. Calvin

  Climate, Stopping, Response

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.137, William H. Calvin

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  If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Bread, Transformation

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Breathing, Green, Limits

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mother, Silly, Exercise

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

  Bob Schaffer

  Economic, Burden, Reducing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

  Joe Rogan

  People, Understanding, Important

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• Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Hips, Values

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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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• If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Responsibility, Conformity, Moments

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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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• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

  Mark Dever

  Numbers, Long, Church

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.12, B&H Publishing Group

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• Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth

  Roy Barnes

  Sides, Traffic, Side Effects

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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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• The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person.  I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail?  Who cares if you fail?  It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down.  If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.

  John Rzeznik

  Baby, Fall, Mean

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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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• We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Grows, Transformed

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 12, 2012

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• Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

  Janet Yellen

  Sides, Painful, Term

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• Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
  reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
  This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
  for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
  the planting,
  after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

  Marge Piercy

  Long, Digging, May

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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