Growth Quotes - Page 37

• See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Opportunity, Understanding, Inevitable Change

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• If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Doe, Needs

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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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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Life Is Like

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• To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Science, Light, Cells

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• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Reality, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

  Mary Douglas

  Christian, Made, Threat

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• My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

  Marion G. Romney

  Adversity, Soul, Affliction

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Adversity, Overcoming

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• The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

  Maurice Strong

  Population, Needs, Danger

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Past, Differences

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Nature, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

  Rick Larsen

  Jobs, Class, America

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• In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Talking

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Important, Engagement, Mergers

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Building, Easy, Should

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Compassion, Offering, Needs

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• I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Thinking, Addiction, Emotion

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• We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Home, Crystals, Refrigerators

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• The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

  Michael Porter

  Creating, Innovation, Purpose

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day. What might you do differently from what you do now?

  Rob Brezsny

  Spiritual, Feel Good, Joy

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• The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Events, Intense

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Effort, Population

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• The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Development, Human Nature, Failing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

  Jim Henson

  Believe, Problem, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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