Quotes About Growth

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if you learn from other people's experiences, it enhances your life.

As you grow older, there are lesser and lesser roles for you in the movies, while in dance the field opens up as you mature.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

Everything in life is like a class if you can operate in a capacity to be open for the lesson.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

And so I remember moving to LA, going to the Islamic center in Hollywood and feeling like the cultural element wasn't what we were operating from as much as the spiritual one, and that was really cool. That was really good for, you know, my growth and my development.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

I'm completely of the opinion that anybody can do CrossFit.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.