Quotes About Growth

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

She grew not on the land so much as out of it, like cottonwoods and bear grass. Each fall a part of her collapsed and withered alongside the wildflowers and grapevines she loved and used for healing. Each spring some new part of her erupted just as the mallows and poppies did, spreading her toes like roots in the truth and sustenance of ground, while branching out to the rest of the living world and stretching upwards towards the light.

It seems like all the people who are really impressed with themselves in school -- it's like that's their whole life. What's after that? I was always attracted to the people who thought beyond school and of their future and who they would be as adults.

As for Cash and me, it's a never-ending, ever-evolving process--I believe that's known as "marriage".

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. If somebody is that perfect, how can you not think of yourself as being so imperfect next to him? I think people are perfect in their imperfections.

New York is an organic city, one that is always in transition. Within a lifetime (often in only a few decades) neighborhoods grow, gain prominence, peak, and return to oblivion.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

People come and go in your life. You don't get to hang onto them forever.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Caro: Are you sure, Philippe? I do love you, but we're so different. It won't be easy. Philippe: No it won't be. But who wants easy when they can have incredible? Yes, we'll have to work through some tough bits, but won't that be worth it when we see what an amazing life we can build together?

There's an important difference between GIVING UP and LETTING GO! - Jessica Hatchingan.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

you've got to be investing today in what your future's going to be 5 or 10 years out.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Livingston: I know it was your sixth company, but was there anything that you found you were better at? Greenspun: I think I was probably mostly worse at things than I thought. The VCs had a point when they said people remember how you made them feel more than what you said.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

But there is one good thing about hearing your deepest fear spoken out loud - nothing else that made you afraid before will ever seem so large or terrible again.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

It's not what you know-or when you see-that matters. It's about the journey.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not really trying