Quotes About Growth

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

The less of routine, the more of life.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

I wasn't a very good teacher.

When you are filled with self-hate your mind is reversed. Meaning you will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth.

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

The sheer volume of online data today is so staggering, it's hard to comprehend: in 2019, Internet users posted 500 million tweets, sent 294 billion emails, and posted 350 million photos on Facebook every day.29 Some estimate that the amount of information on earth is doubling every two years.30 This kind of publicly available information is called open-source intelligence and it is becoming increasingly valuable.

the transformative power of relationships

The fiercest emotional pain has the power to swallow you whole if you are stationary long enough.

You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.

Finding out that you are wrong is even more valuable than being right, because you are learning.

The good teams, I suddenly thought, don't make more mistakes; they report more.

unless a leader expressly and actively makes it psychologically safe to do so, people will automatically seek to avoid failure. So how did Teller reframe failure to make it okay? By saying, believing, and convincing others that "I'm not pro failure, I'm pro learning.

OpenTable CEO Christa Quarles tells employees, "early, often, ugly. It's O.K. It doesn't have to be perfect because then I can course-correct much, much faster.

Pixar director Andrew Stanton offers advice for how to choose people for an effective feedback group. They must, he says, "make you think smarter and put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time."6 Stanton's point about having people around who make us "think smarter" gets to the heart of why psychological safety is essential to innovation and progress. We can only think smarter if others in the room speak their minds.

For over a century, we've focused too much on relentless execution and depended too much on fear to get things done. That era is over.

Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for future.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

It wasn't love right away, because nothing ever is no matter what the songs say, but it was the start of it. A beginning in one way, and the end in another. I think that might always be true of love.

At fifteen, it's still kind of tough to see that people can't be compressed into one color all the time. They shift and change, letter days or not, many layers of many colors.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.