Quotes About Growth

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special kind of love to change who you are inside.

Flowers in the Attic

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special

But they soften you in ways you can't imagine. It's so unexpected. They just smooth out your hard lines.

fault. That the world isn't just changing. It's passing you by.

Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That's how we get trees." "Does now seem like an appropriate time for a nut metaphor?

you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad

Change tells you who you really are.

That man needs to build a bridge to get over himself.

The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

change is the healthiest way to survive

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.

With a given volume of capital advanced, the scale of production grows, and hence, with a given rate of surplus-value, the absolute mass of the surplus-value produced in one turnover period also grows, and there occurs, simultaneously with this, a rise in the annual rate of surplus-value caused by the reduction in the reproduction period.

By destroying the non-capitalist milieu on which its expansion is based, capitalism undermines the conditions of its own growth.

The very nature of expanded reproduction – capitalist reproduction – under capitalism implies that production takes place not only on a broader scale, but also under changed technological conditions.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.