Quotes of: Economic-growth Keyword

The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

Anuj Somany

Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.

Bridget Geegan Blanton

Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.

Tim Urban

Challenges lead to Growth, Grow matures ones daily living, Living a good life expedites....Wisdom

Vernetta Norman

Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

Wang Jianlin

Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are disputing about matters of Religion? 'Tis common for Philosophers, Lawyers, Physicians, &c. to differ about matters which concern...

An account of the growth of deism in England

In many areas of life, freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, the liberating restrictions. Those that fit with the reality of our nature and the world produce greater power and scope for our abilities and a deep...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

The fact that God can bring character development and personal growth out of any situation is conditional on people's willingness to submit to God's will. God is sovereign over every life, but those who yield their will to him will be shaped accordin...

Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda

Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the listener having to know anything about us. Music touches people's emotions in a way that nothing else can. When people find a musician they...

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompati...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and num...

Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety

DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist? EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy ...

Emilie Autumn

There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to...

Elisabeth Elliot

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Gautam Adani

Economics Teacher: Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

William Vickrey

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend w...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Of valid economics pre-dating the Power Age (steam and electricity), there remains not a vestige. Of valid economics pre-dating the intensive and extensive use of electricity there will soon exist only rags and tatters. We still have to thank Adam Sm...

Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will ...

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-c...

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World