Quotes About Growth

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

So he believed. Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

Human beings remain grubs all the lives.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given [to] you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

But always a giant, long before his body showed it.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed

Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...

Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Focus too closely on the goal you haven't accomplished, and you'll fail to notice the victories you achieve along the way.

When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them." ? , Speaker for the Dead

Cuando conoces de verdad a alguien, no puedes odiarle. Tal vez sea que no puedes conocer a nadie de verdad hasta que dejas de odiar.

Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be tested later, and punished if he hadn't learned it.