The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Men are but children of a larger growth.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.
The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.
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