Quotes About Growth

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow old or else pay more for remaining the same.

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

I live by the law of averages," said Alois. "I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.

Most people, no matter how brilliant, are vessels. Once you come to the end of what is interesting in them, you can touch the side of the jar. There will be nothing afterward but repetition of what you have learned already. It might take a night, a year, or half a lifetime, but once you can reach the side of the vessel, a good part of the larger feeling is gone.

I may never wind up being anything, but I owe it to myself to build my integrity.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

He already understands that the past can't be changed. Now he's beginning to understand how easily it can be repeated.

But then I thought: you left to leave. Staying in his ambience like this is stupid and it is lacerative.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.