Quotes About Growth

I contemplate a tree. I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of the blue silver ground. I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the suckling of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air - and the growing itself in its darkness.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

would have made for a growing excitement.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

His sonnet no. 152 uses the metaphor of sculpture for salvation: 'By what we take away, lady, we give to a rugged mountain stone/A figure that can live? And which grows greater when the stone grows less.' Here was the fascination with sculpture as an act of discovery within a piece of marble: by chipping away, the figure was slowly revealed.

The pursuit of art is a journey that never stops; the more you see, the more you want to see.

from a small one. That's because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.

We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.