Quotes About Growth

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

putting in the necessary thinking work and refusing to accept the unattractive trade-offs, we can unleash our ability to build new and better models and create value for the world.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Porque, aunque no puede haber gracia sin conocimiento, puede haber mucho conocimiento donde no hay gracia;

Maybe that's just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over. And

Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. —Friedrich Nietzsche

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won't give you, and victory today is one of them. This will be one defeat; more will follow. Victories will follow too. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

Right angles and switchbacks in the pattern of plant growth are signatures for gall bladder remedies—see Chelidonium as well as Apocynum.)

We have come to take the dysfunctional aspect of ourselves for granted without realizing that it is possible to free ourselves from the vicious circle that is exhausting us.

Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

neuroplasticity', a term which takes into account the fact that the brain evolves continuously in relation to our experience, and that a particular training, such as learning a musical instrument or a sport, can bring about a profound change.

la suffisance est l'apanage du sot, l'humilité est la vertu de celui qui mesure tout ce qui lui reste à apprendre et le chemin qu'il doit encore parcourir.

Happiness is a skill, a manner of being, but skills must be learned. As the Persian proverb has it: "Patience turns the mulberry leaf into satin.

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.