Quotes About Growth

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

To make headway, improve your head.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.