Quotes About Growth

Yes, I was lonely, but I knew then and I know now: I did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes. You know what I'm saying?

did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes.

Leave wreckage by the roadside. Burn all decayed tissue. Tightrope from which we emerge. —DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD

I wonder," Marcia said. "If you would consider being my apprentice?

The evolution of income can be looked at from three different perspectives: growth, poverty, and inequality. Growth is about the average and how it changes, poverty about the bottom, and inequality about how widely incomes are spread across families or people. The

As we already know from the poverty numbers, the bottom fifth of families gained very little. The growth in their average incomes was less than 0.2 percent a year over the past forty-four years and, even before the recession, their real incomes were no higher than they had been in the late 1970s. Average incomes of the top fifth, by contrast, grew more quickly, at 1.6 percent a year, though not as quickly as those of the top 5 percent, whose average incomes grew at 2.1 percent a year. Once

The slowdown in growth is likely overstated, because the statisticians miss a lot of quality improvements, especially for services, which represent an increasing share of national output. The information revolution and its associated devices do more for wellbeing than we can measure. That these pleasures are barely captured in the growth statistics tells us about the inadequacies of the statistics, not the inadequacies of the technology or the joys that it brings.

The decade of the 1960s was the postwar golden age, with an average growth rate of more than 4 percent a year, a rate that is high enough to increase incomes by a half in ten years. Growth

one careful study estimates that the average income of all the inhabitants of the world increased between seven and eight times from 1820 to 1992.

Until the early 1970s, the United States was the very model of a modern major economy.

Economic growth has been the engine of international income inequality.

Angus Stevenson

Angus Stevenson

Everything is a learning experience.

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I got highways for stretchmarks See where I've grown.

That trip to The City could not have lasted more than a few days, but because my universe exploded and was expanding at such a rapid speed, time stood still. Each experience imprinted itself on me like it would a newborn child. When I came home I think I called my mother and told her I was moving to New York and I think she said something to the effect of, "I trust your judgment." It took me a few years, but eventually, that's exactly what I did.

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

To love does not mean to surrender, dissolve, and merge with another person. It is the noble opportunity for an individual to ripen, to become something in and of himself. To become a world in response to another is a great immodest challenge that has sought him out and called him forth.

Winning does not tempt that man. His growth is this: to be defeated by ever greater forces. Book of Images