Quotes About Growth

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Read the great stuff but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction

the path to change is not through greater willpower and harder work, but rather through thinking differently.

One of the challenges of life is to be open-minded about new ideas and new possibilities.

In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.

mistakes are positive elements of quintessential thinking and failure is an important part of the foundation upon which to build success.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

good progress is often the herald of great progress.

Setting a higher bar for yourself for what you mean by understanding can revolutionize how you perceive the world.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Read to live, not live to read

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Alas! there is no fool like him who wishes for knowledge! It is only through woe that we are taught to reflect, and we gather the honey of worldly wisdom, not from flowers, but thorns.

Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

I collect the walks of my life. Some people have asked me if I have walked so very far to merit such an activity, but I say to them, it's not about how far you have walked, but how thoroughly.

Mi pantalonai. Me li infilai, come se stessi amputandomi le gambe. Adesso, mi dissi, per te tutto il mondo sarà in flanella grigia. L'avevo indossata, ne avevo fatto un sacco per chiuderci dentro l'infanzia. Come mi sentivo? Superiore? Vecchio? Saggio? Più pesante? Più forte? Mi trovavo eretto e diretto e di bell'aspetto, lusingato e favorevolmente impressionato? No, per niente.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.