Quotes About Growth

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

On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. 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.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

Una vez que percibes el dolor agudo de las convicciones limitadoras que tienes en la actualidad, usas dos o tres convicciones sustitutorias para avanzar.

when you're going 10% bigger, you're competing against everybody. Everybody's trying to go 10% bigger. When you're trying to go 10 times bigger, you're there by yourself.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss, which was gifted to Tony by Bill Clinton) Mindset by Carol Dweck (for parenting) As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (see Shay Carl, page 441)

Whether or not you "need" someone at this point is immaterial. It is an exercise.

Complaints about reality are immature.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." Peter Blois in Theology of the Reformers

St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you will be doing the impossible.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

As John of the Cross writes so simply: "On this journey, we must always continue to walk if we are to arrive.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

One cannot learn the things that unmask wisdom at the speed to which we have become accustomed in contemporary living. There are no short cuts.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.

Timothy S. Lane

have a tendency to do this with parenting: If I can just get through the diaper phase. . . . Once my children were out of diapers, it became: If I can just get through these early years of elementary school, then I can minister to others.

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

Christian friendships do not simply help us bask in the sunshine of God's grace; they also help us to roll up our sleeves and strive after holiness.

Change within community is counterintuitive to the way we often think, but Scripture clearly presents it as God's way of making us more like Christ.

What sets the course of a person's life are the ways he responds to the little moments. The character developed in a thousand little moments is what you carry into the big, important moments.