Quotes About Growth

For better or worse, security was one of the few growth industries in France. Just

As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

Change appears to us mysterious because it is invisible. It is impossible to see a tree grow tall or a man grow old, except with the precarious imagination of hindsight. A tree is small, and later it is tall. A man is young, and later he is old. A people are at peace, and later they are at war. In each case, the intermediate states are at once infinitely many and infinitely complex, which is why they exceed our finite perceptions.

uno viaja siempre con el niño que fue.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

There is always room at the top.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

The World Ain't No Day-care Center.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies.

To cover the houses and the stones with green—so the sky would make sense—you have to push down black roots into the dark. —CESARE PAVESE

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

By 2050, natural gas demand is estimated to be 60 percent higher than it is today.

Unfortunately, dogmatic, unchanging rules are drunken elephants in the house of crystal that is life.

By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.

Cider House Rules

A lot of people who had terrible childhoods have kids to prove that they can do a better job, or to fix some cosmic rift by being the parents they needed to their own children.

Self realization rocks

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...

And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us.

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

Most of us have heard that it takes 21 days to change a habit. Unfortunately, many experts now believe that it takes 21 days for any change to begin to take place.