Quotes About Growth

These three little kittens opened their eyes when they grew old enough, and thought there was nothing so nice in all this wonderful world as their own dear mother, although she told them of a great many nice things, like milk and bread, which they should have when they could go up to the big house where she had her breakfast, dinner, and supper.

The only fresh meat is the future.

I couldn't picture myself as a good teacher and didn't want to be a bad one. Meanwhile I fell into proofreading, which led to copy editing, which has proved satisfying and educational. Pity about the summer vacations, though.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

As a consumer, if you want to stimulate the economy, then pay full price. As a producer, if you want to stimulate the economy, then provide a discount.

As a species, the only way we're going to have a better world is by solving the harder problems.

Eventually, money will optimize itself and everything around it.

Math problems are good problems to have.

New walks. More threads. Better spots. Bigger spreads.

Scaling Kardashev is any civilization's primary function.

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.