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“Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.”

Grows Growth Plant Nonviolence Slow Growth

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.”

Grows Growth Consciousness Aspiration

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.”

Eye Grows Growth Christianity Grace Christian Growth

Book:A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

“The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.”

World Way Believe Wells Helping Energy Strong Grows Goal Growth Seeing Achieve Position Cost Demand Lows Fundamentals Clean Wave Customers Pool Volume Lofty Clean Energy Lofty Goals

Author:Alan Armstrong

“Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.”

Desire Grows Growth Growing Bigger

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“We grow from our dreams.”

Dream Grows Growth Our Dreams

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).”

Grows Growth Communication Organization Bigger Intimacy Intimate Email Belly Detached

Author:Anita Roddick

“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

“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.”

Thinking Grows Growth Challenges Chance Weakness Exciting Mindset Wow Threatening Growth Mindset

Author:Carol S. Dweck

“Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought”

Way Reason Grows Growth Criticism Institutions Planning Mutual Freedom Of Thought

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.”

Way Government Happens Grows Growth Can Do Taxes Block Best Things Regulation Small Business Unlikely Business Growth

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.”

Thinking Knows Giving Dream Grows Growth Know How Elements Majors Fantastic Combination Filmmaker

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."”

Thinking Humans Culture Grows Growth Dark Human Beings Talking Skins Leap Rebirth American Culture Literal Not Talking

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I start with peoples growth, my own growth included. I dont start with the companys strategy or products. I start with peoples growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the companys growth will in many respects take care of itself.”

People Ifs Believe Care Running I Believe Grows Growth My Own Company Products Strategy Take Care Participating

Author:James McNerney

“Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.”

“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.”

Ifs Needs Enough Facts Grows Growth Focus Percent Aspect India Ships Chinese Indian Goods Manufacturing Delivery

Author:Arjuna Mahendran

“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.”

World Long Three Grows Growth Nature Feet Metaphor Obvious Lakes Length Inches Deep Thought Eighteen Ponds

Book:Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery

Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery

“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”

Ifs Years Problem Order Grows Growth Percent Credit Stable Gdp

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.”

Way Needs Feels Humans Two Reason Grows Growth Keys Conflict Accepted Feedback Facilitate Human Needs

Author:Sheila Heen

“Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries all over the world struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops ask you're going to see all kinds of international conflict.”

Ifs World Kind Country Together Asks Grows Growth Water Struggle Land Amount Conflict Scientist Climate Climate Change International Terrorism All Kinds Related Crops

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.”

May Matter Moments Feelings Age Grows Growth Commitment Concerned Flesh Consistency Readiness Inconsistent Dissolution

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.”

Ifs Grows Growth Succeed Personal Growth Define Success

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.”

Knows Should Spiritual Force Grows Growth Happenings Testimony Thrust Stature

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.”

Ifs Way Given Grows Growth Church Responsibility Accepting Lord Wonderful Equal Remarkable Marvelous

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.”

Purpose Grows Causes Growth Can Do Natural Leader Environment Garden Seeds Purpose Of Life Planting A Garden

Author:James Hunter

“The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth”

Doe Jobs Grows Growth Conditions Plant Gardener Optimal

Author:Ken Robinson

“A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.”

Together Grows Process Growth Preservation Change And Growth

Author:Bill Crawford

“I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to a small degree, but nothing serious. To that end, it doesn't have the same importance that it would have, if you were on an hour-long show. I think an audience gets really hungry for a character to grow and change on an hour-long show, and I think I would be more antsy.”

Ifs Thinking Want Believe Long Ends Character Shows Would Be Grows Growth Hours Opinion Audience Serious Degrees Importance Don't Believe Hungry Get Real

Author:Ty Burrell

“I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.”

People Thinking Knows Want Believe Kind Two Different Shows Girl Grows Growth Powerful Growing Up Exciting Innocent Knives Different Peoples Really Cool Being Me Meek

Author:Ellen Wong

“Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.”

Ifs Men Grows Growth Hours Watches Tree Fronts Overcoming Obstacles All Time Thrive Good Times Runners Worms Stature Incessantly Beetles Prunes After Hours

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.”

Men Language Grows Growth Modern Structure Architecture Meaningful Circles Traditional Related Consistent Customs Village Find Me Modern Man Implied

Book:Tradition and Revolution

Source: Tradition and Revolution

“Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.”

People Country Jobs Grows Growth Economic Policy Entrepreneur Pursue Educate Household Economic Growth

Author:Peter Blair Henry

“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"”

Want Needs Littles Sometimes Today Grows Growth My Own Habit Comfort Creatures Strive Yesterday Get Better Each Day Zone Ritual Reach Out Comfort Zone Norm Creatures Of Habit

Author:LaToya Jackson

“We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.”

Inspirational Life Is Energy Grows Growth Our Lives Aspect Agree Fuel Engagement Choke

Author:Jim Loehr

“You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow.”

World States Grows Growth United United States

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can grow into. Not so much in New York. Super conservative, super small.”

Needs Years Bigs Grows Growth Space Company New York Conservative Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley Popping

Author:James Pearse Connelly

“Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.”

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Author:Bryan Kest

“As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“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.”

Way Needs Giving Doe Grows Causes Growth Disease Plant Substance Soil Organisms Indispensable Microbes Infectious Diseases

Author:Elie Metchnikoff

“I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.”

People Book Matter Helping Today Passion Grows Growth Personal Growth

Author:John C. Maxwell

“People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.”

People Writing Book Matter Today Asks Grows Growth Personal Growth

Author:John C. Maxwell

“They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource. But there also need to be measures, changes within the government of Puerto Rico, in the ways that the island's funds are administered, not just to deal with this budget issue, but also to have, to attract the economic growth that is necessary for Puerto Rico to begin to grow economically. They are losing population, and they are losing economically.”

“Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.”

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Author:Jamie Dimon

“We identified various sectors of the economy, which we said were growth sectors. I have mentioned tourism. We said, for instance, agro-business. We grow a lot of food and fruit and things like that. It must be possible to process those.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“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?”

People Ifs Want Kind May Book Seems Grows Waiting Growth Term Space Company Limits Economics Valuable Primitive Publishing Expanding Corrections Down The Road Retail New Business

Author:William Gibson

“If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That`s how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing that.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.”

People Writing Years Past Song Grows Stuff Growth Interesting Mountain Majors Piano Throwing Songwriters Chords Goats Interesting Stuff

Author:John Darnielle

“I just feel like the people who are discouraged about religion, it's [really] the connotation of people that go to church. People that go to church love the Lord and they like to be around people who love the Lord. It's a fellowship and it's a growth and it's a feeding for them that when they're in a social group of people who believe, it makes them grow spiritually.”

People Feels Believe Social Grows Growth Church Lord Groups Feeding Discouraged Fellowship Connotation Social Groups

Author:Reba McEntire

“From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.”

Ifs Mean Able Grows Growth Economy Trump Taxes Population Income Flats Relative More Money Suggesting American Economy Flat Tax

Author:Michael Hudson

“Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.”