Growth Quotes - Page 33

• Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Mean, Giving

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• Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Progress, Done

  Wayne W. Dyer (1978). “Pulling Your Own Strings”

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• We grow into that which we admire.

  Emmet Fox

  Admire, Grows

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• I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Tree

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• ...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety.

  Joan Anderson

  Live Life, Confusion, Culture

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• I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

  Eudora Welty

  Growing Up, Wells, Grows

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

  Fred Thompson

  Design, Population, Halt

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• Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

  Phil Harding

  Population, Growing, Economic

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• Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

  David Cameron

  Energy, Needs, Wealth

  Prime Minister’s address at the launch of the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) new Energy Efficiency Mission, February, 2013.

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• The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

  Phil Harding

  Mean, Essentials, Economics

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• We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Technology, Environmental, Energy

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• To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution. It will transform our economy as surely as the shift from iron to steel, from steam to oil. It will lead us toward a low-carbon future, with cleaner energy and greener growth. With an economy that is built to last - on more sustainable, more stable foundations

  Chris Huhne

  Iron, Oil, Foundation

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• I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

  Rob Hopkins

  Opposites, World, Stuff

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• Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we address population growth sooner rather than later. Efficiency improvements, increased use of renewable resources and less waste in themselves are no longer sufficient to put us back into credit

  Phil Harding

  Population, Different, Use

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• Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

  Gordon Brown

  Government, Environmental, Care

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• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

  John Holdren

  Environmental, Energy, Essentials

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• Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

  Tony Blair

  Real, Progress, Quality

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• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

  David Suzuki

  Heart, Successful, Technology

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• Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster

  Phil Harding

  Expansion, Population, Environment

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• Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

  Stewart Brand

  Years, Environmental, Population

  "Environmental Heresies". www.technologyreview.com. May 1, 2005.

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• The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

  John Dewey

  Education, Literacy, Aim

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• We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Giving, Vision, Age

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• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Age, Half

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• Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Age, Doe, Needs

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1976). “Aging”, Image

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• Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

  Jody Watley

  Song, Flower, Responsibility

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