Quotes About Growth

true fulfillment comes from love of the process.

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Life is too short to be small. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI

success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash?

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? Embrace the suck for a while. Chances are your first job is going to stink and your living conditions won't be much better. Enjoy the scrappy years, 'cuz they'll make you self-sufficient way faster. Ignore anyone who tells you to go for security over experience.

It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.

Timothy Ferriss

Adversity doesn't create character; it reveals it.

Timothy Ferriss

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life.

Timothy Ferriss

No one is perfect, and we're all works in progress.

It's worth taking a look at the supposed indignities of "serving" someone else. Because in reality, not only is the apprentice model responsible for some of the greatest art in the history of the world—everyone from Michelangelo to Leonardo da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin has been forced to navigate such a system

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

Pienso en los problemas como minas de oro. Los problemas más grandes del mundo son las mayores oportunidades de negocio del mundo».

The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." –Terry Pratchett

Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), de Carol Tavris y Elliot Aronson.