Quotes About Growth

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

Attitude is altitude.

People who retain their childish attitudes will rarely be able to hold on to the success they may achieve through their talent.

You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.

"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being."

"Someone I loved once gave me a box of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift"

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

In order to evolve and become what nature and God intended us to be, we must attune ourselves with this process of constant change.

dealing with the cycles of life*

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

every substance contains undeveloped resources and potentialities, and can be brought outward and forward into perfection.

R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.

Globally competitive companies don't eschew profit or financial well-being, but they do not believe businesses achieve financial goals by using accounting variables to control people's work. They see employees as a source of learning, not as a cost.