Quotes About Growth

He darted a look at the uncovered basket behind me, saw what I was eating, and glared at me. "That's appalling," he said. "They're wonderful!" I said. "They're all coming ripe." "All the better to turn you into a tree ," he said. "I don't want to be a tree yet," I said.

He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it.

A handful of economists in the late 1960s had realized that free market economics, focused as it was on consumption growth, was inherently destructive to the natural environment and to the ecosystems on which we all depend.

It is so easy to make mistakes when you are a parent. The easiest thing in the world," Marsha said. "But you can only do what you think is best at the moment. Maybe you will be smarter the next day, or the next month, or in five years. But it doesn't help you at the moment. You need to forgive yourself.

If you want to change who you are, change what you want

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

We clean it up and we keep going," I say firmly. "Life is one mess after another, and there's nothing you or I or anyone else on this planet can do to change that. So when messes happen, like they always will, there's only one thing to do: you clean it up. And you keep going. Say that to me.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Men, in general, are but great children.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.