Quotes About Growth

Every year, I make it my goal to learn something new, but I never end up sticking to it.

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

A lot of people I've grown up with have got themselves in sticky situations.

I think that the stiff competition for places is a positive thing.

The right man applauds your potential, he doesn't stifle it.

Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

Getting over the stigma of needing to appear as if I do it all myself took about 12 months. I finally realized that the only way to be a successful, happy mother, founder, wife, and daughter was to accept the help that was being offered to me.

I am still learning.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

I always love going home anyway; it's where my roots are. I always like to go back. It's a good reminder of where I started and the journey that I still have to go on to get where I want to be.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.