Growth Quotes · Page 170

Globalisation, and specifically our connectivity to China, has contributed to a sustained growth in the U.S. economy, has led to full employment…

— Neil Bush

“It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow…

— David Falkner

The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other…

— Bob Frank

“Discontent is the spur of progress.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the…

— Thomas A. Edison

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

— Nikola Tesla

“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions,…

— José Saramago

We make progress only when people are willing to speak about what their lives are like and what they care about. We…

— Maggie Hassan

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense…

— Tim Jackson

“Adults don’t have the same growth momentum that children do to help enable and amplify progress. In adults, change comes from hard…

— Melissa Orlov

Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many…

— Colum McCann

“If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

— Evelyn Underhill

Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many…

— Tyler Cowen

Life thy virtue is change for growth but sometimes growth & change are full with pains but nothing is as painful as…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I…

— Luis Fortuno

Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act…

— Seth Shostak

Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to…

— Ali Babacan

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

— John Assaraf

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness…

— Sissela Bok

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

— Gary Busey

You are in a good place when you can laugh at what would have made you mad in the past.

— Anonymous

Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth…

— Henry Hazlitt

Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.

— Paul Polman

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…

— G. Stanley Hall

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

— Asger Jorn

“I give you my word that the next few years in human development will be shocking, disruptive, and wholly unimaginable!”

— Dan Brown

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically;…

— Simon Kuznets

All growth depends upon activity.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent…

— William Hazlitt

Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised…

— Terry Crews

London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a…

— Sadiq Khan

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Of the alternatives we face in controlling long-term spending growth, moving Medicare to a voucher system seems only mildly unfortunate - and…

— Jacob Weisberg

We need to have the growth. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, you're never going to get the type…

— Mick Mulvaney

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

— Francois Gautier

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I am risk adverse, my growth will be reversed.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents' labouring ethic, its growth has been…

— Guy Standing