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J. R. R. Tolkien Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Meg Whitman Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
DRYDEN: _All for Love,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. Men are but children of a larger growth.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
John Henry Newman Growth is the only evidence of life.
Glenda Cloud Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
Frank A. Clark We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.
Ellen Glasgow All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Albert Einstein Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
William Pitt Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Harold S. Geneen Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.
Karen Kaiser Clark Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
MRS. BARBAULD: _The Invitation._ Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Russell G. Alexander Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.
M Scott Peck Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
Alex Noble Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else
Mary Ann Brussat Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Ellery Channing Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
George Washington True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
M Scott Peck Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
George Shinn Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
Hakim Jami If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head.
John Dryden Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
Morris Adler The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Prometheus._ Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
Nathan Hale Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Nathan M. Pusey We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
This Is Spinal Tap Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Susanne Langer In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
BYRON: _Lara,_ Canto ii., St. 22. Why did she love him? Curious fool! be still; Is human love the growth of human will?
Theodore Roosevelt The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Ralph W. Hardy Individualism, as a definition of holding to personal ideals, is classed as obstinacy and anti-social. Inevitably we run point blank into the evils of compromise. When compromise enters our moral fiber, it spreads like a cancerous growth. We think we pla
CORNELIUS G. FENNER: _Gulf-Weed._ A weary weed, toss'd to and fro, Drearily drench'd in the ocean brine, Soaring high and sinking low, Lashed along without will of mine,-- Sport of the spoom of the surging sea, Flung on the foam afar and anear, Mark my manifold mystery,-- Growth and grace
Dr. Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Clarence Cramer Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.
The Sufi Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.
Bertrand Russell One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
"It's the 90's. Computer theft is a growth industry." -- MacLeod
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
"Bother," said Pooh, as he torched the old-growth forest
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almos
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the

 

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