Quotes About Growth

Whatever you give shelter and sustenance to in your mind is ultimately what will grow in your garden. You're going to reap what you sow. The way you renew your mind is to wrap your thoughts around Scripture. You can take control of what you think about. You deliberately plant the good seeds/thoughts of God in your mind. As these thoughts take root and grow, they will help remove the destructive weeds that the Enemy tries to plant in your mind.

Faith thrives in holy discomfort. The

You have the power to water the good seeds and cultivate the good seeds and pull out any weeds that come from seeds you don't want.

Lord, I thank You for the treasure of the Bible. Please teach my heart to want to dive into its treasures every day.

God was very creative with plants and their seeds. But there's one kind of seed He wants you to spread: the seed of kindness. Being kind means more than just smiling and being nice. It takes courage to be kind to that kid everybody else picks on or that person who's different from you. And it takes strength to be kind when you're tired or when others aren't so kind to you. But when you plant a seed of kindness, it grows . . . and spreads!

Lord, plant a seed of kindness in my heart and let it grow so big that I just have to share it with everyone I meet.

will say this. He gets less ugly with time.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

Jak to wyrazi? Carl Jung: "Pogód? si? ze swoim smutkiem, bowiem w nim wzro?nie twoja dusza".

Jak mawia? Swami Bodhidharma: "nie mo?esz mie? ?adnej nowej rzeczy, dopóki nie pozb?dziesz si? starych rzeczy". Innymi s?owy, kiedy nic ci nie idzie, mo?e nale?y spojrze? na dany problem z innej strony.

such as mating, childbearing, and establishing an occupation, lead to confusion, emptiness, and psychological distress.

Education is cumulative, and it affects the breed. —Plato

The extent of neural growth and learning during sensitive periods results in early experience having a disproportionate impact on the shaping of our brains.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

It is an iterative process that goes something like this: * Screen it * Discuss it * Get the feeling that you don't know what you're doing * Weep openly * Tear it apart * Correct it * Re-board it * Rebuild it * Screen it again * Repeat as necessary

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.