Quotes About Expansion

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

It's all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. It's all about getting big fast. Don't be profitable, just get big.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

Always make your future bigger than your past.

In revising and expanding the Bible, Smith's procedure was similar to that of an ancient pseudepigraphist who, in the words of one Bible scholar, "created something new, an imaginary Sacred Past, the way it should have been.

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

More problematic, in retrospect—in fact, I would now say, flat wrong, recklessly so—was the presumption that such regimes, like Nazism, had an insatiable appetite for expansion, which they were determined to satisfy by military aggression where necessary and feasible.

The world is much bigger than you thought

inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn.

All deep structure regrets reveal a need and yield a lesson. With boldness regrets, the human need is growth—to expand as a person, to enjoy the richness of the world, to experience more than an ordinary life.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita—unknown territory.

Learning this skill of distinguishing awareness from that which you are aware of will enable you to expand the container of consciousness and empower you to "taste" so much more than just a salty glass of water.

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

I believe you really do need to be 360 in this industry. And being just a Vine creator was not my goal.

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.

The people of Central Virginia expect me to work with all Members of the House - regardless of party affiliation - to advocate for policies that will expand opportunity for their businesses and families, and I'm committed to following through on that promise.

Amazon continues to demonstrate confidence in Virginia by expanding and reinvesting in our Commonwealth.

During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.