Quotes About Growth

time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

To build strength and flexibility, we should open our minds to people and ideas we don't like, and pick fights with those we do.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.

Knowing" can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.

and we can be the players only when we understand loneliness and go beyond it. … because beyond it lies the real treasure. —J. Krishnamurti

he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

It's about the girl," she said. "She lived for four years in the forest, never in a house. Growing things, hiding, reading books. We'll go see her; she'll tell us things.

School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

Daughter, "Daddy, do rice and beans really make you grow big and strong?" Dad, "Yes." Daughter,"Are you sure?" Dad,"Yes." Daughter, "Then why are you so short?

Train your brain to gain.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

We are like an infant in the arms of God, unable to grasp but being transformed by the grasp.

Even if one has progressed far in divine things, one is never nearer the truth than when one understands that those things still remain to be discovered. He who believes he has attained the goal, far from finding what he seeks, falls by the wayside.

Leaders create growth trajectories by creating chains from five dimensions of growth: customer group (current or new), product (built or acquired), geography (current or new), capabilities (current or new), and culture (current or new).

I had always believed that suffering was a requirement for anything worthwhile: art, educational success, professional achievement, marriage, parenthood. On this day, I had found another way, though it had taken thousands of miles to get here.

emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

Am I growing in the freedom God gave me?

the overall health of any church or ministry depends primarily on the emotional and spiritual health of its leadership.

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.