“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.” IfsWorldSocialGrowsNumbersGroupsParticularMetsLuckyDemandDiseaseIncreaseWorkersRoundsVariousProfessionProportionHaltUnemployedSubwayProfessionalismPresent DayConductorSocial WorkerRigidityOligarchyIrrelevanceBricklayers Author:Ted Nelson
“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.” IfsTryingSelfAblePainPastGrowsDifferencesFashionMetsLimitsDiseaseYogaGreedCaringHonestlyUnconsciousMaking Love Author:Ken Dychtwald
“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.” LooksMatterBodyEyeAgeAsksGrowsDyingDiseaseFleshSurrenderOld AgeExhausted Book:The Long Goodbye Source: The Long Goodbye
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen
“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.” MenWayWantFeelsBelieveLongIdeasSelfEarthTogetherJobsSocialGrowsUnderstandingBehindsLeaderPathFeminismHugeInvolvedDiseaseMen And WomenEmpowermentFundamentalsEvolvePatriarchyWant UPeace On EarthSelf EmpowermentImbalanceReally LongUndoing Author:Ani DiFranco
“The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.” WorldHelpingMovingLanguageGrowsStreetsCrimeDiseasePicksAppreciateThirdsIndiaCloudsLiftsParisBrownImmigrantsLos AngelesStakesToxicMultipleThird WorldImportsCalcuttaIlliteracyBombayStranglingQuagmireStreets Of Paris Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.” ThinkingGrowsEnvironmentHealthyDiseaseApproachSensibleInsectsCropsSturdyHealthy Environment Author:Masanobu Fukuoka
“In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.” WayNeedsGivingDoeGrowsCausesGrowthDiseasePlantSubstanceSoilOrganismsIndispensableMicrobesInfectious Diseases Author:Elie Metchnikoff
“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.” WorldMadeDifferentKidsGamesGrowsDifferencesGrowing UpTakenChildhoodAchieveDiseaseIntelligentSavingOutcomesReportsPhilanthropyPhenomenalFull PotentialMalnutritionVery PositiveHaving KidsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.” GrowsDiseaseCarrierPests Author:David Sedaris
“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.” MenLittlesLongEndsKidsAsksSpeakGrowsWatchesCuttingTreeDadDiseaseSummerPlantMy DadBlockSavingDamageBranchesStrongestLittle KidChoppingEnd Of SummerCutting Off Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenDoeUseMightKidsNextStarsGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpImagineDiseaseMajorsOur ChildrenParentingYour ChildrenConquerorNounsMotion PicturesUnqualifiedCollectibles Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.” GrowsChildhoodDiseaseSickness Author:William Golding
“Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.” GivingMindWellsBookTurnsReadingGrowsGrowthNatureToo MuchDiseaseEatingStrongerHealthcareWiserNourishmentVigorDigestionAlways Eating Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.” StatesLeftGivenGrowsEasyDifficultDiseaseAffairTreatedCuresRulersPhysiciansRecognizingPrudentTime PassesAfar Author:Niccolo Machiavelli