Quotes About Growth

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

L.A. was the John Wayne Gacy of cities, smothering its children with a toxic beach towel of poisoned air, mindless growth, and bad values.

Magicians are not made, they make themselves.

I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. If you are sure you are right, do not let the voice of the world, or of friends, or of family swerve you for a moment from your purpose.

the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself—his present seeking to excel his past.

We envy the success of others, when we should emulate the process by which that success came.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.