Quotes About Growth

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

Time, on its own, heals nothing. ? Mary Rakow, The Memory Room . (Counterpoint, August 31, 2004) Originally published April 1st 2002.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

En él creció una tensión que se fue transformando en la rabiosa aflicción rebelde del hombre-niño que busca la fuerza de un hombre en el ruido y la furia.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

I like to read because it kills me.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.

Trutwib went on speaking, her voice picked up volume and power until I heard her prediction ring out, her words that changed everything. "The one who lives under your wing, my lady, shall grow and grow until she outshines you. You will die, forgotten and obscure, and she shall blaze like the sun.

Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more.

If you are a serious and analytical parent, it is easy to go right past what went well to what you want to be better. Remind yourself to pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments and celebrate each success, no matter how small it might be. Don't let one problem rob you of the joy of the good moments.

and feel good about it. "What can you say to your irregular

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. —Isaac Bashevis Singer

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.