Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.
. . . treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
A 1. 5 litres100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968. 35 cubic metres (41,994,994. 53 US gallons) of oil a day.
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.
. . . there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.
We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening. . . we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.
Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically. 05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.