Quotes About Expansion

It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Every limit presupposes something beyond it.

The natural strategic orientation of many companies is toward retaining existing customers and seeking further segmentation opportunities. This is especially true in the face of competitive pressure. Although this might be a good way to gain a focused competitive advantage and increase share of the existing market space, it is not likely to produce a blue ocean that expands the market and creates new demand.

The rule here is to go for the largest catchment that your organization has competence to seize.

To maximize the size of their blue oceans, companies need to take a reverse course. Instead of concentrating on customers, they need to look to noncustomers. And instead of focusing on customer differences, they need to build on powerful commonalities in what buyers value.

A market becomes stagnant and develops a growth problem as the number of soon-to-be noncustomers increases

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein

But there is something worse than settling for mediocrity. It's exclusivity. It's the temptation to up the ante and to raise the bar of discipleship so high that it disqualifies all but the most committed, and thus thins the herd that Jesus came to expand.

All it takes is the right training, and we step out, over the boundaries of our bodies and their limitations.

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

his voyage opened new possibilities for Portuguese trade and conquest.

the Atlantic to the Pacific.

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

found many islands filled with people without number, and of them all have I taken possession for Their Highnesses, by proclamation and with the royal standard displayed, and nobody objected.

permission to hire only a dozen Portuguese; in reality, he was taking nearly forty with him.

They asked to keep any "islands" they discovered for themselves, if they discovered more than six

Everything to the west was also unknown.

thanks to the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator, algebra, geometry, astronomy, and navigation.

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

At the time, England's tiny navy, hardly more than twenty vessels