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“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.”

World Firsts Whole Growth Imagination Fronts Development Whole 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.”

People Ifs World Firsts Growth Percent Prosperity Income

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.”

Firsts Has Beens Growth Born Mystery First Time Europe Incredibles China Speed Fascinated Fascination Bicycle

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.”

Firsts Ends Spiritual Growth Enlightenment Foundation Accidents Spiritual Growth Questioning Samadhi

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?”

“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”

Should Firsts Force Growth Class Intellectual Concern Intelligence Productive Rapids Ardent Rapid Growth

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.”

Thinking Should Years Firsts Wells Growth Youth Equal Wine Add Generous Pleasant Mellow Cellars

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.”

Needs Firsts Humans Order Growth Rocks Habit Plant Soil Barren

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.”

Needs Firsts Country Goal Growth Economic Achieve Products First Time Absolutes Decades Priorities Our Country Occasions Addresses Gross Economic Growth Annuals Gross Domestic Product

Author:Vladimir Putin

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”

Firsts Growth Sleep

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.”

Firsts Two Spiritual Growth Results Depends Consequence Two Things Spiritual Growth Willingness Word Of God

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”

Firsts Long Made Self Energy Process Growth Emotion Sea Creation Fit Madness Weather Useless Destroying Hollow Undisciplined Typhoons

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.”

Way Firsts Children Happens Growth Lines Trouble Mama Dividing

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”

“Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

Life Feels Firsts Two Feelings Remember Three Process Growth Mistake Essentials Personal Growth Investing Expected Get Better Learning Process Feeling Bad

Author:Ray Dalio

“[When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower.”

Trying Firsts Two Running Together Growth Term China Worried Two Things Investors Emerging Central Banks Ammunition Emerging Markets

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.”

World Firsts War Three Growth Higher Demand Taxes Percent Rate Myth Decades War Of The Worlds Wealthy World War Ii World War I

Author:Robert Reich

“I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.”

Ifs Firsts Made Care Beautiful Growth Nice Refuse Interfere

Book:Socialism of My Conception

Source: Socialism of My Conception

“Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.”

Firsts Long Ideas Growth Consciousness Roots Train Appearance Intellect Formulas Train Of Thought

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.”

Firsts Children Individual Growth Pay Family Four Cutting Taxes Rate Improvement Income Code Boards Junk Tax Cuts Fiddle Exemption

Author:Steve Forbes

“I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.”

World Giving Firsts Kind Children Has Beens Mother Growth Personality Unique Window Witness My Children Novelists Components Being A Mother

Author:Carol Shields

“The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.”

“Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.”

Firsts Soul Body Fall Grows Growth Liberty Cases Feet Conditions Grew Opposites West Western Ancestor Eastern Bondage Shackles Falling Off

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.”

Needs Firsts Film Growth Space Class Tvs Studios First Class Studio Space

Author:Eric Fellner

“Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place”

Firsts Energy Growth Technology Taken Revolution Lows Rate China Oil Developing Usa Gas Consumption New Technology Oil Price Energy Consumption

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.”

Firsts Hard Helping Bigs Growth Economy Taxes Investment Tax System

Author:Eva Kaili

“Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.”

“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”

Ifs Want Firsts Littles Growth Failing Succeed Hundred First Time Weight Lifts Pounds Lighters

Author:Norman Doidge

“Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.”

Firsts Sound Growth Loss Grace Essentials Despair Believer Conversion Sinner Prerequisites

Book:Sovereignty of God

Source: Sovereignty of God

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.”

Source: The Powers of The Mind

“There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.”

“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.”

“The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.”

Firsts Mean Self Artist Growth One Thing Discovery Cameras Self Discovery Self Growth

Author:Minor White

“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.”

“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.”

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

Firsts Growth Change Birth Creatures Innovation Ill Living Creatures Starting Anew

Author:Francis Bacon

“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”

“We can get America moving again, put on top of that the kind of trade deals that'll put the American worker first, and you've got a prescription for real growth.”

Firsts Kind Real America Moving Growth Deals Trade Workers Prescriptions American Workers

Author:Mike Pence

“We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the administration, to begin to roll back the unconstitutional executive orders and an avalanche of regulations that have been stifling growth and jobs in Indiana and across the economy.”

Firsts Has Beens Jobs Order Growth Economy Trump Administration Executives Regulation Monday January Indiana Stifling Unconstitutional Avalanches Executive Orders

Author:Mike Pence