Quotes About Growth

My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.

Aa our knawledge is hauflin; aa our prophesíein is hauflin: but whan the perfyte is comed, the onperfyte will be by wi. In my bairn days, I hed the speech o a bairn, the thochts o a bairn, the mind o a bairn, but nou at I am grown manmuckle, I am through wi aathing bairnlie… In smaa: there is three things bides for ey: faith, howp, luve. But the grytest o the three is luve.

There is no standing still, Life goes on, and is always bringing forth its Realities, which Way soever it goeth.

Debemos ser en extremo cuidadosos De la semilla que nuestra mano sembrará; El amor del amor germinará, El odio del odio crecerá".

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed

William McIlvanney

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

In describing the causes of poverty, Muhammad Yunus has often compared a poor person to a bonsai tree. The seed of a bonsai has the potential to grow into a full-size tree, but, planted in a tiny pot, its growth is stunted. To Yunus, a person deprived of education or opportunity is like a bonsai. The constraint isn't the seed, it's the pot.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.

Your personal growth as a leader will be directly tied to your ability to give and receive feedback.

As you grow in your management responsibilities, one of the biggest areas of focus will be talent. Adopting an approach where you are always recruiting is the most powerful way to build a team of "A" players in the shortest time possible.

Being "exciting" means the company is continuously learning, improving, innovating, changing. Being part of this is challenging and exciting to everyone. Companies focused on doing this always create new opportunities for individual as well as organizational growth.