Quotes About Growth

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This is true in marriage, parenthood, friendship, and certainly business.

teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

Don't be afraid of your emotional "mistakes." They tell you what you should be doing differently and provide the steady stream of information you need to understand yourself as life unfolds.

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This

The questions were, 'What did you accomplish?' 'What will you accomplish next?' 'How can you improve?'" "That's it?" "Not quite. The question on the back was, 'Are you embracing the values?

And what if she says she's up for it?" Bobby asked. "How do we teach her to be smarter?" "That's a high-class problem, my friend," Clare announced. "If Attila the Hun walked into this office right now and convinced me that he really wanted to get better dealing with people, I know we could do it. Most training and development comes down to how much a person wants to change.

I don't know how else to say this, but building a team is hard.

Help people realize that when they fail to provide peers with constructive feedback they are letting them down personally. By holding back, we are hurting not only the team, but also our teammates themselves.

In quelle settimane invecchiai di parecchi anni, imparai molte cose sullo spirito e su quella sacca simile a una pera, grossa come un pugno e divisa in quattro cavità che chiamiamo cuore.

But when a man puts on maturity and invulnerability, it seems that he necessarily becomes indifferent to many things that gave him joy.

men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

Sometimes when our backs are up against the wall, we can surprise ourselves with what we are truly capable of. We can push off those walls and discover something deep within ourselves. We just have to make sure we do not create walls within ourselves, or between us and other people. Walls are for scaling. Or for knocking down and crumbling.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.