Quotes About Growth

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

The reward of pain is experience.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.