Quotes About Growth

Stop Asking for Feedback and Then Expressing Your Opinion

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

Marshall Goldsmith

Feedback—both the act of giving it and taking it—is our first step in becoming smarter, more mindful about the connection between our environment and our behavior. Feedback teaches us to see our environment as a triggering mechanism. In some cases, the feedback itself is the trigger. Consider

the higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.

If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

The goal in handling dragons is not to destroy them, not merely to disassociate from them, but to make them disciples. Even when that seems an unlikely prospect.

Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

Our life isn't a story that we read. It's a story that we write as we live it, one page at a time.

I mean how many decades do I keep trying to fix something before I realize the trying to fix it may be the problem. It's one of those things that I wish I had really understood better when I was a lot younger. And if I had it would have turned my outward search for what would make me fit better in the world, to an inward one of asking, what do I want?

First rule of life, Idina. Everybody screws up. What matters is whether we let that stop us in our tracks or we tell it to fuck off so we can get back on our feet and keep going.

Today is a part of a long journey and this isn't the last chapter. It's just one of those middle ones that takes some courage to walk through to see what comes next.

That's how we learn, ain't it? Accidents 'n mistakes 'n it's all worth knowledge s'long as we keep from grinding ourselves down in the gutter over it.

Masters become masters because they practice in the little moments. Every pause, every moment to yourself is an opportunity to try again. Every tiny shift matters, and the more you practice, the better you will become. Besides, if not now, when?