Quotes About Growth

Yet to understand modern economic history, you really need to understand just a single word. The word is growth. For better or worse, in sickness and in health, the modern economy has been growing like a hormone-soused teenager. It eats up everything it can find and puts on inches faster than you can count.

Las materias primas y la energía pueden agotarse: cuanto más las usamos, menos tenemos. El conocimiento, en cambio, es un recurso en aumento: cuanto más lo usamos, más tenemos.

Paradise, the capitalists promise, is right around the corner. True, mistakes have been made such as the Atlantic slave trade and the exploitation of the European working class, but we have learned our lesson and if we just wait a little longer and allow the pie to grow a little bigger, everybody will receive a fatter slice.

Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.

ever since the Cognitive Revolution Homo sapiens has been able to revise its behaviour rapidly in accordance with changing needs.

Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Move forward, not backward." That was a favorite quote from a book she'd read. Just another way of saying there was no sense dwelling on the past, but less clichéd.

reconhecer nossas capacidades, fazer experiências, testar até onde poderemos ir na busca de nosso melhor.

Distribua seu conhecimento abrindo oportunidades para que algumas pessoas desenvolvam seus potenciais e progridam.

Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel. Trees grow in the lobby and up through the rooms. Limbs jut out through the windows. It looks like outside inside. I climb the trees through 1000 rooms. I look for you in each of them. You're a long shiny line.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

Oamenii ar putea fi florile p?mîntului. ?i, negre?it, vor fi într-o zi florile p?mîntului. Mai e pîn? atunci...

believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you can learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. —Marilyn Monroe

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist.

We communists are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Complacency is the enemy of study.