Quotes About Growth

I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before.

What is a nucleotide ? You don't know, do you? Yet these are the building blocks of life. 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.

he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...

Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.

Youth is about promise.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

adults forget how difficult that task was.

We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes. With success, sure, we are pleased, but we often have no idea why we succeeded. With failure, it is often possible to figure out why, to ensure that it will never happen again.

We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes.

It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

Even if the first versions of a product are well done, human-centered, and focused upon real needs, it is the rare organization that is content to let a good product stay untouched.

Blaming a person is seldom appropriate or useful, a

A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.

Our becoming is done.

When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed in literature by reading faster and faster--but reading more is reading less. I learned to slow down.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Be open to new information and ideas.

Use your work to better yourself. You

you must work on improving your skills every day and never quit. In

Growth is an indication of life, so keep your organization moving forward at all times. Having a passion for what you do is crucial. If you can't get excited about what you are doing, how can you expect anyone else to?

Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn't what we expect or want.