Quotes About Growth

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

Consuming life cannot be other than a life of rapid learning, but it also needs to be a life of swift forgetting.

Estas tendencias patológicas (y sobre todo de despilfarro innecesario) del crecimiento exponencial de la producción de bienes y servicios podrían ser diagnosticadas a tiempo —vale decir, reconocidas por lo que son, e incluso inspirar medidas curativas o preventivas— si no fuera por la existencia de otro fenómeno de crecimiento exponencial que desemboca en un exceso de información.

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement, matter of fact in some cases it is quite an advantage.

It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like a pregnancy or as on my lap a child not to grow or grow old but dwell on

intellections have a use, don't think they don't: if the vine couldn't find a natural tree, what would become of it? if structure without life is meaningless, so is life without structure: we're going to make a dense, tangled trellis so lovely & complicated that every kind of variety will find a place in it or on it: you just be surprised: & forgive us: who mean song direct & fierce:

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

It seems to me, he emailed me later, that you start out with what you know or what you think you know and you work within those 'truthful' boundaries until you reach some sort of wilderness of not knowing, and then you find a way through until you see an end, or you find a way through until you find the end that you've already seen. It can work either way: running away from the truth, or running out of it.