Quotes About Expansion

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

However many people you know now, you will always need to know more. You want to connect with as many people as possible to increase your chances of meeting the right people who will change your personal and professional life.

The absence of causes of contraction such as jealousy, hate, etc., allows consciousness in such moments fully to expand without obstacles in a fullness of bliss, but if even one of those present is not concentrated and absorbed, then consciousness remains offended as at the touch of a surface full of depressions and protuberances because he stands out there as a heterogeneous element.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.

We've discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.

The search for "better cab" was not limited to the United States. Cheng Wei, an engineer at the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, missed several flights in China because of his failure to get a taxi in time. Fed up, in 2012 he founded DiDi, which means "beep beep" in Chinese. Now called DiDi Chuxing after a merger, it has become the largest ride-hailing company in the world.

"This building has to be at least…. three times bigger than this!"

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

78 million in 1900 to 230 million in 2000

Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion John Law

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite

None of us grew but the business.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.