Best growth & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.”

“We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.”

People Thinking Way Looks Problem Understanding Growth Gone Solutions Fuel Expensive Toxic Benign Inexpensive

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.”

Problem Growth Garden Fascinating

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.”

Problem Would Be Spiritual Opportunity Growth Existence Spiritual Growth Barren

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.”

Ifs Problem Spiritual Opportunity Given Grows Growth Greater Capacity Overcoming Difficulty Burden Solve Inner Strength Problem Solving Discouraged Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”

Two Problem Lasts Culture Growth Known Century Amount Dependent Stability Principal Incapable Parallels Constraints Reckoning Continuance Exponential Growth

Author:M. King Hubbert

“Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.”

Problem Growth Consumption Symptoms Obesity

Author:Emily Levine

“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”

“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.”

“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.”

People Thinking Knows Want Problem Age Growth Levels Consciousness What You Want Make You Happy Getting What You Want

Author:Bob Proctor

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.”

Ifs Problem Growth Ability Responsibility Forever Our Lives Depends Capacity Personal Responsibility

Book:The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.”

People Mean Enough Problem Process Growth Growing Information Organization Enormous Quantity Overwhelmed Getting High Disclosure Vets Caliber Whistleblowers Enormous Quantities

Author:Julian Assange

“The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.”

Ifs Two Problem Growth Situation Economy Progress Size Debt Technological Manageable Austerity Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.”

People Believe Children Enough Problem School Growth Quality Serious Educational Good Enough

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“...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.”

“If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”

Ifs Way Life Important Hard Problem Faces Difficult Growth Deals Personal Growth Investing Disappear Staring Shrinks Better Ways

Author:Ray Dalio

“Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.”

Ifs Thinking Way Life Problem Pain Fighting Growth Solutions Personal Growth Investing Painful Reactions Evolve Knees Rapids Reflecting Jerk Knee Jerk Reactions Thinking Deeply

Author:Ray Dalio

“Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.”

People Knows Want Life Wells Use Problem Reality Growth Know How Progress Personal Growth Investing Grounded Idealist Converses

Author:Ray Dalio

“I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.”

“One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.”

People Life Problem Growth Behinds Theory Source Tests Personal Growth Investing Critical Arise Our Society Relevant Load Misinformation

Author:Ray Dalio

“Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.”

“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.”

“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror

“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.”

Ifs World Problem Would Be Growth Interest Population Obvious Goods Zero

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.”

“The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.”

Problem Jobs Nations Goal Growth Economic Majors Budgets Sufficient Good Job Deficit Reduction Revive Economic Problems Budget Deficit

Author:Robert Reich

“The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.”

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.”

“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

“If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.”

Ifs Doe Whole Stories Problem Purpose Growth Realizing No Problem Whole Picture Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.”

Ifs Problem Light Faces Growth Highest Problem Solving Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth.' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.”

Feels Wells May Matter Problem Spiritual Opportunity Difficult Growth Effects Sorry Well Being Spiritual Growth Feel Sorry For You

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.”

Ifs Doe Whole Stories Problem Light Faces Purpose Opportunity Growth Realizing Highest Perceive Disguise Problem Solving No Problem Whole Picture Inner Growth

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.”

People Knows Problem Government Growth Realizing Born Poor Politician Married Solutions Intention Mindset Beast Guarantees Bureaucracy Good Intentions Constituents Betterment Beastly

Author:R. Lee Wrights

“Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.”

Inspirational Problem Growth

Author:Richard Bach

“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.”

“Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.”

Problem Spiritual Growth Absence Thrive Midst Spiritual Growth Classroom Trenches

Book:Messy Spirituality

Source: Messy Spirituality

“The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.”

Ifs Needs Different Problem Growth Views Roles Economy Economic Lows Stronger Investment Compromise Tension Germany Economic Growth Need A Change Central Banks Different Views

Author:Paolo Gentiloni

“Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.”

Want Needs Humans Problem Earth Growth Resources Population Population Growth Needs And Wants Human Population

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.”

Humans Problem Bigs Growth Greater Eating Population Meat Overconsumption Population Growth Human Population Meat Eating

Author:Sharon Gannon

“The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.”

Ifs Problem Opportunity Goal Growth Path Failing Stones Embrace Obstacles Quitting Only Time Stepping Stones Small Problems

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners with protectionism, devaluations, cutbacks on imports. But is there going to be a dramatic change? TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.”

Trying Problem Growth Deals Eras Dramatic Foreigners Imports Protectionism Eurozone Dramatic Change Cutbacks

Author:Gary Shilling

“Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?”

Want Kind Whole Problem Faces Growth Economy Economic Depends Invention Temptation Consumers Mechanism Seduction Novelty Economic Growth

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“We have a real economic growth problem in America. We are limping along. Wages are flat. And jobs aren’t being created near to the extent that they could and should be. So we think regulatory relief is very, very important.”

Thinking Should Important Real Problem Jobs America Growth Economic Relief Flats Wages Economic Growth Limping

Author:Paul Ryan

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