Quotes About Growth

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

In this modern world, where we have filters to make us look as nice as possible, it's good to take off the filter and go, 'I could look stupid here.' You'll learn something and be better for it.

Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

As an older woman now, I feel the pressure more, I feel all those different aspects, I'm more aware of that. Whereas as a 13-year-old, as a 17-year-old, you just do swimming, you're just doing it as sport where you don't really think of all the outside bits.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.

I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.