Quotes About Growth

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit. Each step in the artmaking process puts that issue to the test.

Lanier University

In many circumstances, formal education replaces the infant language with one that goes on to be used in adult life as the operative means of communication.

I wonder why things have to change

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

The OECD similarly looked at many countries to establish the relationship between tax and growth. It came to the conclusion that for every 1 per cent of a country's economic output that is taken by tax, the output per person falls by 0.6 to 0.7 per cent.

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line.

the garden between dawn and sunrise?

The things that scare you the most are the things that bring you closer to who you're meant to be.

Hello? Testing? My name is Jonathan Collins. I am seventeen years old. Today is... some day in July 1993. And I am okay. Scratch that, I am more than okay. I am... I am... I AM.

Why am I really here? To hide myself away or to burst open?

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.