Quotes About Growth

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I started to get a whole lot of attention in the 10th grade. That's when I kind of came out of a little bit of a shell, or whatever, as far as basketball was concerned. I stopped being so goofy. For a high school kid, my game matured a little faster. It got better from the ninth to tenth grade.

Academically, I think things kicked off pretty late for me. I was kind of one of those kids who was in half honors, half regular. I was like a history/science kid, which was always weird. Around tenth grade or eleventh grade, everything started coming together.

My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.

My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.

The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense.

We've all evolved as players throughout our tenure in the league.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.