Quotes About Growth

The problem is the problem, the person is not the problem. Michael White and David Epston

The aim is to make money, not to be right

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

We are like plants which – whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not, must with our roots rise out of the earth in order to bloom in the ether and to bear fruit.

Christian growth is simply accepting what we have always been from the first day we accepted Christ. The

Careers advance by how well you learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp and play its game.

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

Capitalism is neither a person nor an institution. It neither wills nor chooses. It is a logic at work through a mode of production: a blind, obstinate logic of accumulation.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know where it will end.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience, conduit rapidement à une destruction, pour soi-même comme pour les autres, de toute raison de vivre comme de tout futur possible, et vous plonge dans un ennui pesant qui finit par se transformer en une amertume atroce, accompagnée de haine et de rancoeur à l'égard de ceux qui appartiennent encore à la vie.

The triumph of vegetation is total.

A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.

De eeuwigheid van de kindertijd is een korte eeuwigheid, maar dat weet hij nog niet; het landschap glijdt voorbij.

la adolescencia no sólo es una etapa importante de la vida, sino que es la única etapa en la que se puede hablar de vida en el verdadero sentido del término.

cada vez que pensamos demasiado en el pasado, que volvemos una y otra vez sobre un episodio doloroso, y el psicoanálisis se reduce a poco más que eso, incrementamos las posibilidades de reproducirlo.