Quotes About Growth

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Yesterday ended last night.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

Education is soul crafting.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.