Quotes About Growth

Perfectionism is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

That's what growth is all about. It doesn't come when things are status quo. It happens only when something new is introduced, forcing every integral part to adjust. This is a universal law that can be applied on any level of life.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

Life is just a long succession of small epiphanies.

Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.

Time is short. Don't waste it beating yourself up.

These voices — the inner critic, the inner nag, the inner pest, the inner jerk and all the other monsters who try to talk you out of moving forward— are the part of you that is threatened by change and progress. We all have them. They are trying to protect you from new and scary things, but they are out of sync with you right now and not helpful. They hate what you are doing, but that doesn't make them right

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

This procedure of building the audience before developing the offer has profound implications to the operation and growth of your business.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Make new mistakes every day. Don't waste time repeating the old ones.

The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people.

Every business needs a core strategy to be what I call always on the improve , for us it's constant, gentle pressure.

Change works only when people believe it is happening for them, not to them.

But the worst mistake is not to figure out some way to end up in a better place after having made a mistake. We call that 'writing a great last chapter.

The ABCD strategy —always be collecting dots.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Vielleicht war es gut für mich, dass alles so kam, wie es gekommen war. Damit die Vergangenheit auch verging. Damit man nicht mehr dorthin zurückkonnte, damit man sie hinter sich lassen konnte, als machte man mit einer alten Kamera ein schlechtes Foto und kurbelte den Film dann einfach weiter.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.