Pastoral Resources

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.