Growth Quotes - Page 21

• TV is and will remain the leading medium - whether it's public broadcasting, commercially funded Free-TV, or whether it is our new growth engine, Pay-TV; whether it is distributed via broadcasting or on demand: The future of TV is - TV!

  Gerhard Zeiler

  Demand, Pay, Tvs

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• Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Love You, Like Love

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• We are disturbed - we can't play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history.

  Carlos Barrios

  Opportunity, Play, Special

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• Conflict is growth trying to happen.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  Trying, Conflict, Happens

  "‘Making Marriage Simple:’ The New Book That Could Change Your Marriage" by Rebecca Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

  Cyril Cusack

  Identity, Actors, Problem

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Relief

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Patterns, Aging

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Museums

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• A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

  Elizabeth Cunningham

  Powerful, Rain, Book

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• Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down. Machinery wears out. Inventories get depleted. Technology becomes obsolete. Brand loyalty is the only sound foundation on which business leaders can build enduring, profitable growth.

  Jim Mullen

  Loyalty, Technology, Leader

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• Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

  J. D. Greear

  Grace, Needs, Evidence

  J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.103, B&H Publishing Group

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• Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

  Jim Stengel

  Inseparable, Maximum, Ideals

  Jim Stengel (2012). “Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies”, p.1, Random House

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• Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.

  Ruth Stout

  Garden, Giving, Profound

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

  Margaret Halsey

  Political, Defeated, Refusal

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• I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

  Emanuel Celler

  Rights, Monopoly Power, Bills

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

  Herman Kahn

  Opportunity, People, Might

  Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company

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• There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

  Sue Wicks

  Women, Believe, Rooms

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Stupidity

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• Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Mother, Silence, Simplicity

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

  Yoshida Kenko

  Interesting, Giving, Feelings

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

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• This point is . . . crucial,”  writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Writing, People, Outcomes

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• India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

  Carlos Ghosn

  India, Wells

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• Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

  Chester Himes

  Children, Integrity, Land

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• Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

  Mark Pincus

  Moving, Company, Huge

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