“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.” WorldFirstsWholeGrowthImaginationFrontsDevelopmentWhole World Author:Phylicia Rashad
“If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsGrowthPercentProsperityIncome Author:William J. Clinton
“I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.” FirstsHas BeensGrowthBornMysteryFirst TimeEuropeIncrediblesChinaSpeedFascinatedFascinationBicycle Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.” FirstsEndsSpiritualGrowthEnlightenmentFoundationAccidentsSpiritual GrowthQuestioningSamadhi Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsLooksGovernmentAsksEnergyGrowthNaturalCitiesWonderRecordsCenturyEvidenceResourcesClimatePopulationObviousDecadesPanicFlood21st CenturyThreatenedNatural ResourcesDroughtWorld PopulationConfluence Author:Thomas Friedman