Quotes About Growth

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.