Quotes on Growth

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but _x000D_ we get Growth from only those who don't agree _x000D_ with us !

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, the big question was why, over the centuries, the millennia, has growth been speeding up?

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.