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Quotes About Expansion

La mayoría de la gente vive en un círculo muy restringido de sus posibilidades. Todos nosotros tenemos reservas de vida en las que ni siquiera soñamos.
~ William James
We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.
~ China Mieville
The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.
~ China Mieville
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
~ China Mieville
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
~ Chinese proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
~ Chinese proverb
Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.
~ Chinese proverb
George A. Miller's "Magical Number 7" has an expansion module, under certain conditions. We can load around 7 coherent "units" into our mental working space, but depending on our learning and expertise, those units may vary in size.
~ Chip Heath
Understand this: the extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing! In other words,
~ Chris Oyakhilome
In their expansion, humans have invaded every part of our planet, from below sea level to the highest mountaintops, from tropical forests to frozen steppes and ice fields, from lush savannahs and prairies to the driest deserts, from the Earth's surface to the depths of oceans, the air above us, and even the Moon and distant space. Unlike other living species, they have not achieved their successes by developing appropriate physical adaptations; they have done it with their intelligence.
~ Christian de Duve
Thanks to the growing use of contraceptives, population expansion is slowing down, though not as much as it should.
~ Christian de Duve
the exponential pace of human expansion may be about to flatten into a logistic curve, with the limit being set by the finite dimension and resources of planet Earth. This enforced flattening, if it occurs naturally, is bound to be achieved at the cost of enormous human suffering through famine, deprivation, disease, environmental assaults, and internal strife.
~ Christian de Duve
If you think about problems instead of solutions and opportunities, your problems expand.
~ Christiane Northrup
You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then
~ Christina Baker Kline
Why had I always believed that a frontier must, of necessity, be a physical obstacle?
~ Christine Arnothy
genealogy companies have quietly and steadily expanded to become some of the biggest data organizations of the twenty-first century.
~ Christine Kenneally
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.
~ Christopher Columbus
Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.
~ Christopher Dawson
No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.
~ Heidi Baker
There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.
~ Heinrich Harrer
From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.
~ Helen E. Haines
what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
al dar, tu caudal aumenta.
~ Helen Schucman