“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.” YearsTwoMovingLeftParentFourGrowingCollegeProductsHorrorAreasBoxesFoundersDylanJuniorsNon StopBay AreaJunior Year Author:Aaron Levie
“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.” CountryAmericaMovingChoicesEasyPresidentVisionClassEconomyGrowingPlansEconomicMiddleBenefitsMoving ForwardMiddle ClassPresident ObamaKeep MovingRomneyKeep Moving ForwardCarolinaNorth CarolinaMiddle Class FamilyGrowing Economy Author:Bev Perdue
“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.” IfsLooksWould BeActionMovingOur LivesGrowingProgressMovementKeysEvolutionOppositesStuckDevelopingAccomplishmentStayingMatureExpandingClarifying Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way
“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.” IfsHumansMayShowsRealityMovingPoliticalEnergyNationsSocialBitsNaturalChallengesPoorNumbersRaceStruggleRichEnvironmentGrowingEffectsPossibilityResourcesEnvironmentalPopulationVulnerableHuman RaceClimbsGapsCheerLocationRich And PoorDisturbanceMineralsDeteriorationSocial EnvironmentMineral Resources Author:Gilbert F. White
“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.” IfsCountryJobsMovingSpeakUnderstandingLevelsQualitySupportGrowingTrumpSpeechUnderstoodIndiaDifficultyChinaCustomersNativeFrustrationSurprisingIntoleranceRepresentativesOther CountriesAccentsExceptionalEnglish SpeakingChina And India Author:Bob Hayes
“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” IfsFirstsMovingEnergyClassGrowingLandFoodProductionsAgricultureCompetingFirst ClassBiofuelsEnergy Production Author:Bill Gates
“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.” WayChildrenEarthMovingMotherGrowingMortalsGatheringSowing Book:Poems of George Meredith Source: Poems of George Meredith
“One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.” MenLooksStillsShowsMovingFatherStuffResultsBoysGrowing UpGrowingTragedyGuidanceReasoningAdulthoodAdolescenceAnother ManBoyhoodLike A Boy Author:Dennis Rainey
“Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.” ThinkingCharacterMovingGrowing UpGrowingEnjoyedAngst Author:Magda Apanowicz
“the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.” RealMovingLevelsStepsGrowingEvidenceImportanceAgingClimbsOver ItGrowing OldMeadowsGrowing Older Book:The book of Stillmeadow Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"” ThinkingKnowsLooksMovingLife IsGrowingStrangeKeep Moving Author:Joe Rogan
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.” StatesMovingParentLossUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingBuilding Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I know that moves are part of life. But that certainty is fair to say that (not being sold on moving to Los Angeles) is part of it. The good thing is I'm not under contract in a year where we'd potentially be in Los Angeles.” KnowsYearsHardMovingGrowingFairsGood ThingsCertaintyLos AngelesContractsParts Of LifeSan Diego Author:Philip Rivers
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.” Has BeensRealWholeMovingPoliticalForceDealsRolesEconomyTakenGrowingProgressEconomicMiracleDemocraticChinaRussiaPolitical SystemsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Progress Author:Milton Friedman