Quotes About Growth

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

You're the loveliest you'll ever be...until tomorrow and then you will be even lovelier.

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men.

If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

I went to Stanford.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.