“The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.” ArtistGrowthAudienceFineMental HealthCraftsCombinationExpandingMaintaining Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.” MindBelieveIdeasAgeCoursesI BelieveGrowthFriendshipTreeActivityEssentialsRingsEvolveExpandingHormonesTrunksExchangingGrowth HormonesExchanging Ideas Author:Mary McCarthy
“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.” LongOpportunityParentDifficultGrowthTermStudentsCommunicationToolsPersonal GrowthCommittedLong TermColleaguesEngagingExpandingEducatorNonviolent CommunicationStrengtheningInvaluableDifficult Work Author:Ron Rubin
“To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.” GrowthSinDevelopmentMarkExpandingRegressionContracting Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life
“Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.” WayWantNeedsYearsWellsMaySoulProblemForceWaitingGrowthGenerationsEconomicDependsCitizensEqualCapitalismCrisisConstantWestEnvironmentalOilDrySoilFiftySustainabilityDogmaFabricExpandingUnbornPrevailingDrainedNeeds And WantsSoul ForceAquifers Author:Philip Yancey
“Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying 'yes' too frequently.” IfsWellsHardEnoughGrowthImpossibleOrdinaryRedRateManageWeedOfficersFlagsBankingExceptionalExpandingLoanLendingSaying YesRed Flags Author:James Grant
“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.” IfsStatesUseGovernmentLawGrowthCan DoAbilitySecretLibertyTechnologyNovelClearGenerationsSecurityRegretUniqueCourtTreasureReformCombinationDigitalInterpretationPlusUnusualExpandingExclusiveSurveillanceOur GenerationDigital TechnologySurveillance StateSecurity And Liberty Author:Ron Wyden
“One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?” IfsKnowsWayGivingWellsRealGrowthCompanyEconomyShareAchieveRateProductivityMilesBest WayFasterLandscapeFirmEngagedExtrasEmployeeGood TimesStakesExpandingIncentivesBad TimesExtra Mile Author:Nick Clegg
“With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.” FirstsStatesGovernmentCareNamesGrowthTermPartyMistakeEconomicProductsVictoryInvolvedDemocraticShouldersOccasionsBarackHealth CareAgendasExpensesPortionsGrossChipsExpandingCliffsDemocratic PartyEconomic GrowthMarginsEntitlementGross Domestic ProductOverreachingFiscal Cliff Author:George Will
“Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.” LooksGrowthEconomyProgressEconomicEternalMythCeaseLook UpZeroStableUnnecessaryDesirableExpandingEconomic GrowthNonsensical Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?” PeopleIfsWantKindMayBookSeemsGrowsWaitingGrowthTermSpaceCompanyLimitsEconomicsValuablePrimitivePublishingExpandingCorrectionsDown The RoadRetailNew Business Author:William Gibson
“As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.” CountryStatesRememberEnergyGrowthRolesEconomyPolicySafetyDebateRegulationUnnecessaryExpandingDoing NothingColoradoLawmakersPublic SafetyEnergy Policy Author:Bob Beauprez