Quotes About Expansion

Many historians have called this the age of 'merchant' or 'mercantile' capitalism, but 'war capitalism' better expresses its rawness and violence as well as its intimate connection to European imperial expansion. War capitalism, a particularly important but often unrecognized phase in the development of capitalism, unfolded in constantly shifting sets of places embedded within constantly changing relationships. In some parts of the world it lasted into the nineteenth century.

Slavery, the expropriation of indigenous peoples, imperial expansion, armed trade, and the assertion of sovereignty over people and land by entrepreneurs were at its core. I call this system war capitalism.

I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

I shall be, in the future, omnipresent.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land.

Remember: what you focus on expands. As I often say in our training, "Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

Recuerda: aquello en lo que te centras se expande. Como digo a menudo en nuestros cursos: «Allí donde se dirige la atención, fluye la energía y aparecen los resultados».

Aquello en lo que te centras se expande». Cuando te estás quejando, ¿en qué estás centrándote, en lo que va bien en tu vida o en lo que va mal? Obviamente, te estás centrando en lo que va mal, y, dado que aquello en lo que te centras se expande, seguirás obteniendo más de lo que va mal.

Recuerda, para desarrollarte hasta tu máximo potencial, debes vivir siempre al borde de tu caja.

Remember, what you focus on expands.

Archivo de riqueza n.º 4 La gente rica piensa en grande. La gente pobre piensa en pequeño.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

New learning never hurt anybody.

Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

The history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

hay enormes zonas a las que no he llegado nunca, y lo que no se ha conocido es lo que no se es.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

In 1828 Broadway, the city's spinal thoroughfare, ended at Tenth Street, according to the grid plan for the city streets. Forty years later Broadway extended northward to 155th Street and beyond that into the Bronx. Only the three rivers that enclosed Manhattan could limit its horizontal growth.

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

Lawrence's relentless drive for ever larger and more powerful cyclotrons epitomized the trend toward the kind of "big science" associated with the rise of corporate America in the early twentieth century. Only four industrial laboratories existed in the country in 1890; forty years later there were nearly one thousand such facilities.

The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.

There's no way we can invent enough stuff for a company of Merck's size.