Quotes About Growth

What would happen to our change practices if we began all our work with the positive presumption that organizations, as centers of human relatedness, are alive with infinite constructive capacity?

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.

The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

Nada é impossível, e o nosso trabalho é expandir os limites.

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Încrederea exagerat? în propria capacitate ne expune riscurilor ?i ne împiedic? s? evolu?m. Îndoiala de sine joac? un rol decisiv pentru maturitatea noastr? intelectual?.

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.

I might want to be critical, but I don't wish to be destructive.

Leave the past alone, it cannot be reshaped. The future alone is ours. It starts fresh and clean from this very minute.

He who is always anxious to teach will learn nothing.

Where a bad tree thrives, a good tree will flourish. But where no tree at all can be found, nothing will grow.

Good Gad, Weaver. That look upon your face is one of inspiration. I hardly know you any longer.

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The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then

To not risk is to not learn. Or to state this more positively; risk taking can make one open to learning and can ensure that this learning is retained.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.