Quotes About Growth

The better you get, the better you better get.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

But sometimes I have to get out of my comfort zone to stay motivated to do excellent work over the long term.

My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.

Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage

The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters.

In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions.

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

I love afternoons like that, like when we talk about things like metempsychosis, when we learn so much, and explore so much, and ideas grow and take flight, like the idea about the universe and the egg. I love being home-schooled, when we don't have to stick to subjects and timetables and rules.

Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn't really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn't really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.

How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said.

stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable just like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths just like the sea.

Kam reikalingi mentikauliai? - Sako, tose vietose buvo tavo sparnai. Kai buvai angelas. Dar sako, kad vien? dien? jie ten v?l išaugs. - Kaip manai, ar mažyl? tur?jo sparnus? - Esu tikra, kad taip. Tik pažvelk ? j?. Kartais man atrodo, kad iš tikr?j? ji dar nepaliko dangaus ir nepasiek? žem?s.

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel,' she said. 'They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

There's no end to evolution.

Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

FOR LONG-TERM DREAMS (FOUR TO TEN YEARS) Once you get to dreams that are going to take you more than four years to save for, you should really consider putting your dream-basket money into growth-oriented investments. Because you've got more time, you can afford to take more risk to get a bigger return. To my mind, that means investing in stock-based mutual funds.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

Kids make everything better. And harder.

You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can't live there.

right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.