Quotes About Growth

But he didn't used to be this nice and agreeable, I complained to Hugh. Well, he is now, he said. Why can't you let people change?

She regarded her grandchildren as if we were savings bonds, something certain to multiply in value through the majesty of arithmetic. Ya Ya and her husband had produced one child, who in turn had yielded five, a wealth of hearty field hands destined to return to the village, where we might crush olives or stucco windmills or whatever it was they did in her hometown. She was always pushing up our sleeves to examine our muscles, frowning at the sight of our girlish, uncallused hands.

waiting on the other side of sixteen.

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

But we radically improve our skills when we are forced outside of our comfort zone and asked to solve problems that seem foreign, or use tools or methods that seem alien to us. You

Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.

Augustus" (from the verb augeo "to make to grow or to increase")

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

This book will help you become a better programmer.

Todos cometemos errores en esta vida, tú también los cometerás, y lo único importante es levantarse y enderezar lo que dejaste torcido.

Lo complicado no es sobreponerse al abandono de una mujer, lo complicado es sentarse a reescribir tus sueños.

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

It's much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you've been wrong to feel it in the first place

all ensigns should be pruned back occasionally. It served them in good stead later.

Perhaps that, he thought, was the real lesson. The knowledge that life meant growth and change and challenge, and that those were painful things, but that only those who dared to love despite the pain were the true inheritors of humanity's dreams of greatness.

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.

We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

learning not to give a f*ck and not to focus on the non-essentials and the superfluous is the way forward.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.