Quotes About Growth

Perchè alla fine per imparare una lingua, per sentirsi legati a essa, bisogna avere un dialogo, per quanto infantile, per quanto imperfetto.

Voor mij is het vermogen van kunst het vermogen om ons wakker te schudden, om ons diep te raken, ons te veranderen. Wat zoeken we als we een roman lezen, een film kijken, naar een muziekstuk luisteren? We zoeken iets wat ons verplaatst, iets waarvan we ons eerder niet bewust waren. We willen onszelf transformeren.

Un libro, così come una persona, rimane qualcosa di imperfetto, di incompiuto, durante tutta la sua creazione. Alla fine della gestazione la persona nasce, poi cresce. Ma ritengo che un libro sia vivo solo mentre viene scritto. Dopo, al meno per me, muore.

Is that what you think of when you think of me?" Gogol asks him. "Do I remind you of that night?" "Not at all," his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. "You remind me of everything that followed.

It's the first apartment he has to himself, after an evolving chain of roommates all through college and graduate school.

Una lingua nuova è quasi una vita nuova, grammatica e sintassi ti rifondo, scivoli dentro un'altra logica e un altro sentimento.

Studiando una lingua straniera in questo modo, non si può affogare. L'altra lingua è sempre lí per sostenerti, per salvarti. Ma non basta galleggiare senza la possibilità di annegare, di colare a picco. Per conoscere una nuova lingua, per immergersi, si deve lasciare la sponda. Senza salvagente. Senza poter contare sulla terraferma.

Questo libro mi permette di leggerne altri, di aprire la porta di una nuova lingua. Mi accompagna, ancora adesso, quando vado in vacanza, durante i viaggi. È diventato una necessità.

So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.

It all happens in a matter of seconds: the sphere, so precise at the start, emerges, perfectly round, like an egg yolk that then slips from its shell.

Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

Work is no longer challenging.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.