Quotes About Growth

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better.

the day we stop losing sleep over the success of our business and start losing sleep over the success of our customers is the day our business will start growing again.

The rule exists in story because it's a true thing about people. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit," Lincoln once explained to an abolitionist. "Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different.

the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

Learn something new every day.

that, you have to leave your comfort zone.

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.

Older people longed for the world not to change so there would be no cost to themselves.

year advanced. But in these first weeks it fell only on the

with renewing his offer of

People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's

Exactly what I said: she's still a child in many ways, so she's discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn't seen the connections or contradictions among them; not yet.' She

veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.

Matters progressed.

She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up, as what "growing up" entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.