Growth Quotes - Page 28

• Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Painful, Change And Growth, Evolve

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• Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Encouragement, Hard

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• Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

  Fuxi

  Looks, Crowds, Brilliant

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• We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

  Ellen Langer

  Encouragement, Psychology, Impossible

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

  Ellen Langer

  Wise, Mind, Possibility

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.

  Ellen Langer

  Encouragement, Goal, Small Steps

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.35, Ballantine Books

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• This is hard. This is fun.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Fun, Hard

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• Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

  Jaime Escalante

  Growth Mindset, Asks

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• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Focus, Achievement, Effort

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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• Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Mean, People

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.70, Random House

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• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  Edward Bok

  Country, Excellence, Elements

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• Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

  Richard Heinberg

  Done, Economic, Known

  Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.1, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Comfort, Remember

  "BM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

  Ginni Rometty

  Innovation, Today, Culture

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• Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

  Jim Stanford

  Children, Caring, Impact

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

  Colin Tipping

  Spiritual, Judging, Soul

  Colin Tipping (2011). “Radical Self-Forgiveness: The Direct Path to True Self-Acceptance (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

  Nikola Tesla

  Attitude, Sunshine, Ideas

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Mean, May

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2012

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Get Better

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• As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

  Bill Gates

  Population, Healthcare, Paradoxical

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• It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

  Alexander Lowen

  Cutting, Past, Doe

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Growth is a painful process.
  If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Veils, Levels

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• Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.

  Merlin Olsen

  Impact, Careers, Energy

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• The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

  Dean Spade

  Real, Commitment, Love Is

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