Quotes About Growth

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

It's more about what this training teaches a man about himself than a skill he'll take with him into the groups or into combat," Captain Shields added.

Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.

J'imagine que l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s'accrochent de manière si tenace à leurs haines, c'est qu'ils sentent bien que, une fois la haine disparue, ils se retrouveront confrontés à la douleur1. »

No matter how little a man may add to the fund of human knowledge it's worth the doing, for it's by little bits that we've learned to know so much of our old world.

America is founded on the understanding that wealth can be created through innovation and enterprise. Through the system of technological capitalism, we can go from ten marbles to twenty marbles without taking anyone's marbles.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.…Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." —George Saunders

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Simon: You always were wise beyond your years. Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.

But I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

Porque una debe de hundirse en el abismo si quiere elevarse a las alturas.

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, and one obviously has to try them sooner or later.

It has been said that once the mind has been expanded by an idea or concept, it can never return to its original way of thinking.

No perfection... more experience. As soon as you reach perfection it is not perfect anymore because you want to try something different.

I was but something changed. It was Rian and her bullshit." Neveah stood up and rubbed her steadily growing belly. "Or Jigga and his big ass imprint. You

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

The more things I threw away, the more I found.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

What is a nebulous mass, just out of idle curiosity? A possible growth in the body. And it's called nebulous because you can't get a clear picture of it. We get very clear pictures. The imaging block takes the clearest pictures humanly possible. It's called a nebulous mass because it has no definite shape, form, or limits. What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies? Cause a person to die. Speak English, for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

He'd come to know himself, untranslatably, through his pain.

Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.

The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.