Quotes About Growth

We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads.

major American agricultural concerns.

the growth of trade unions into mighty business enterprises.

Knowledge is something we can all increase, but only slowly. People who haven't stayed mentally active have little hope of catching up to lifelong learners.

Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism.

How skillfully leaders perform this balancing act determines how successfully their organizations can cultivate superteams that can replicate the balancing act down the chain of command. And this is not something that one isolated leader can do on his own. It requires a wider willingness to hear unwelcome words from others—and the creation of a culture in which people feel comfortable speaking such words.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow, humanist psychologist

While the entire US population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown at an astonishing rate – by almost 800 per cent. It's still growing – despite the fact that federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 per cent above capacity. Even though this country comprises just 5 per cent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

That very day I resolved not to save all of my change until I turned forty. I resolved to have what I termed a little midlife crisis each day of my life in the hope of avoiding a larger one once I reached forty.

Jak raz, na pocz?tku trafi si? do jakiej? szufladki, rzadko znajdzie si? sposób, ?eby wspi?? si? wy?ej.

The video game business is expected to be a $68 billion industry by the end of 2012.11 Compare this with the size of the entire U.S. publishing industry, which in 2010 had net sales revenue of $27.9 billion.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

Alfred the Great] possessed the supreme military virtue of willingness to be taught by the enemy.

Community is a beautiful thing; sometimes it even heals us and makes us better than we would otherwise be.

I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

They said I lacked ambition, which wasn't true. They confused contentment for stagnation, a common mistake.

Life, not lectures, inspires us to change.

Avoid those persons who claim always to have believed the same thing and demand you do the same. What they are really saying is that they have refused to permit their encounters with God to reshape their lives.

the moment we dismiss someone else's beliefs while championing our own is the moment our conversation ends and our growth stops.

some lesssons couldn't be taught, only learned.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

First build the cities, then build the states, and then hope that the nation will prosper.