Quotes About Slow Growth

#1. I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.
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Eugene H. Peterson

#2. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

Oliver DeMille

#3. Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Bill Gross

#4. You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

William Jay Gaynor

#5. If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

Ray Dalio

#7. Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Sumner Redstone

#9. Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak?

Elsa Barker

#10. The slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.

James Joyce

#11. You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Alexander Graham Bell

#12. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

#13. Hatred was a plant of slow growth ...

Eleanor Dark

#14. Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Thomas Cooper

#15. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Alexander Graham Bell

#16. The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

Edmund Phelps

#17. Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.

Michelle Singletary

#18. Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Henry Fielding

#19. Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

Ben Bernanke

#20. Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

Jean Webster

#22. Love is not a plant of slow growth.

May Agnes Fleming

#23. 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 appellation.

George Washington

#24. I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#25. If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Tim Robbins

#26. Murder is a plant of slow growth ...

Mignon G. Eberhart

#27. A business that doesn't implement a strategy of automation in the client acquisition process is doomed to have slow growth, even puts itself at risk of declining

Bob Mangat

#28. The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

Edward Gibbon

#29. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

William Pitt

#30. Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Seneca The Younger

#31. Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.

Richard C. Armitage

#32. Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#33. Omega-3 is central to cell function and heart health. People who eat a diet rich in omega-3 experience lower rates of heart attack, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, and Alzheimer's disease. Omega-3 has also been shown to slow the growth of some types of cancer.

Lana Asprey

#34. I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

#35. There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.

Seth Godin

#36. The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

Vikas Swarup

#37. Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

Marvin Minsky

#38. A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Gloria Steinem

#39. When we slow down, sometimes way down, that's when we rise up and see the beauty that is all around us, the beauty that is always around us. And if we slow down even more, then we start to see the beauty that is in us - the preciousness, worth and value that was there all along.

Lori Cash Richards

#40. Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

Rick Warren

#41. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

P. J. O'Rourke

#42. Growth happens slowly, slow down today enjoy life without been in hurry

Martin Suarez

#43. We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Mary Antin

#44. Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.

John Boehner

#45. We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

Christy Clark

#46. I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

George Deukmejian

#47. Distributional coalitions slow down a society's capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.

Mancur Olson

#48. The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

James Hansen

#49. I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

#50. Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Paul Ryan

#51. Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less - this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#52. Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy

Gary Hopkins

#53. I must express protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Joe Biden

#54. Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean De La Bruyere

#55. Grow slow and see what feels right - premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too - they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.

Jason Fried

#56. Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

James Hansen

#57. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

Jason Fried

#58. God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

Joyce Meyer

#59. I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Mariel Hemingway

#60. All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus

#61. I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Diane Keaton

#62. Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

#63. I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.

Adam Cole

#64. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

Ezra Taft Benson

#65. Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Sherwood Boehlert

#67. The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.

St. Francis De Sales

#68. But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Muhammad Iqbal

#69. But that's the personality of change, isn't it? When it's slow, it's called growth; when it's fast, it's change.

David Arnold

#70. Regeneration is the beginning of a journey. It is a journey with successes and failures, with growth amid stumbling. At times, the progress seems painfully slow, but progress is there.

R.C. Sproul

#71. Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

Grover Norquist

#72. Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
[Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Tacitus

#73. Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

Garry L. Landreth

#74. True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

John Henry Newman

#75. Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

Amity Shlaes

#76. The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

Abby Wambach

#77. It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

Edward Jenks

#78. My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Juliana Hatfield

#79. Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.

Nicholas Stern