Quotes About Growth

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin, from "Wild Oats," The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.