Growth Quotes - Page 32

• For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

  Ginni Rometty

  Innovation, Today, Culture

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• At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

  Colin Tipping

  Spiritual, Judging, Soul

  Colin Tipping (2011). “Radical Self-Forgiveness: The Direct Path to True Self-Acceptance (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Mean, May

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2012

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

  Bill Gates

  Population, Healthcare, Paradoxical

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• Growth is a painful process.
  If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Veils, Levels

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• Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.

  Merlin Olsen

  Impact, Careers, Energy

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

  William Bridges

  Keys, Self, Transition

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• Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

  John L'Heureux

  Stories, Crafts, Language

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• All life requires a rhythm of rest. . .
  There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.

  Wayne Muller

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.12, Bantam

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• Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

  Helen Clark

  Ecosystems, Economic, Planets

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• Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

  Jean Houston

  Perception, Stories, World

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• Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

  Jim Stanford

  Children, Caring, Impact

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

  T. J. Stiles

  Inequality, Engines

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• The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

  Steven Callahan

  Maturity, Sea, Mind

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusiveness… If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable.

  Klaus Schwab

  Needs, Unemployment, World

  "Inequality Threatens 'Global Society': WEF Founder" by Katy Barnato, www.cnbc.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Challenges, Dynamics

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• The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Issues, Yield

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• I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

  Ben Harper

  Looking Forward, Continual Growth

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Learning

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• NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.

  Anthony Watson

  Nike, Technology, Ecosystems

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• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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