Quotes About Growth

I have a tremendously high opinion of the age of five, by the way. I actually think that to become really mature is to return to the age of five, to become able to recapture the capacity for absorption, for learning, the tremendous hunger to master skills that you have at five years...I always feel that I was a brilliant child at the age of five, and that I've been declining ever since.

Education does not educate and gentle the heart.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement, not only with others but also with ourselves.

growth comes only when you consciously push yourself onto foreign and uncomfortable-feeling sections of wall.

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future.

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

we all go through changes in search of self!

Sometimes you have to let people change and grow on their own, you have to back off and hope it turns out for the best.

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.

I'm the sum of all of my experiences. I'm the culmination of a series of events that have allowed me to arrive at this moment. Even, quite possibly, driven me to this moment. I have controlled some, but most have led me. There is no other identical to what I have become. None. I am me.

The coronavirus pandemic is going to cause immense pain and suffering. But it will force us to reconsider who we are and what we value, and, in the long run, it could help us rediscover the better version of ourselves.

we can take a kinder view of our species, as one not built well enough to handle what it has been tasked to handle, and also a tougher view, demanding of our species that it look at its shortfalls and do what it can to rise above them.

People who are accomplished at anything have learned that "perfect" is the enemy of the good.

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

One of the many consequences of the exponential power-versus-time curve in computing, and the corresponding pace of software development, is that 50% of what one knows becomes obsolete over every 18 months.

By 1940, there were about a million cars in Los Angeles, more cars than in forty-one states.

national competitive advantage

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

and the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more...