Quotes About Growth

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

It's not enough to be a vanilla business school. It's not enough to be terrific teachers who really know their subject matter well.

When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

Growth economics gave technology free rein. Steady-state economics channels technical progress in the socially benign directions of small scale, decentralization, increased durability of products, and increased long-run efficiency in the use of scarce resources.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Herman Parish

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

They founded no mission society, organized no city mission, wrote no books on "dynamic evangelism." Instead, they celebrated the Sacrament and prayed continually. "And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved" (2:47).

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.

Develop your situation sensors. –   Get involved in projects outside your area. –   Participate in extracurricular activities. –   Communicate your personal "why.

If you don't create new opportunities within the confines of your "day job," they may never come your way.