Quotes About Growth

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," writes Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

steep learning curve means you're climbing faster. And the steepest learning curves come right away.

We often interrupt people at the beginner stage, forgetting that talent can take time.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

Many people are looking for security instead of opportunity.

Something is wrong if they don't bring out the best in you.

You can only truely get over someone when you find someone else that you care about more!

You're only as old as you . . . Just face it, you're old.

high confidence causes low competence, which in turn causes denial, until one faces the facts and confidence is lowered—then, progress may start.

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain, if you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees, if you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow people. Chinese proverb

Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.