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Quotes About Growth

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
~ Pete Cashmore
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
~ Peter Mayle
Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
~ Peter Sarsgaard
If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.
~ Phil Collen
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
~ Pope John Paul II
To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.
~ Queen Latifah
To progress we must do the work as individuals, but then we must come together and work together.
~ Omar Epps
The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Labor is God's education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.
~ Raymond Pettibon
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
~ Rebecca Skloot
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.
~ Richard Saul Wurman
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
~ Ricky Gervais
The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.
~ Unknown
I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.
~ Rineke Dijkstra
I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
~ Robert Barry
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
~ Robert Browning
It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.
~ Robert Greene
Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.
~ Robert McKee
There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.
~ Roberto Aguire
And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.
~ Robertson Davies
Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.
~ Robin Sharma