Quotes About Growth

Cities change.

If the old refused to die, the new could not be born.

All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

negative feedback is good medicine for a company even when it is unfounded.

My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.

Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that bruise? – would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing. Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

The experience was not of love growing but of its being no longer obscured.

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.

Am I free to change my mind? Of course not. It can only change me.

You can accept what is in the present moment even while working to change it.

Life is not a noun, it's a verb.

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it—when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill—the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.