Quotes About Growth

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

Opportunity looks a lot like work...

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.