Quotes About Growth

learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

If you are open to your growth potential, you will attract that for which you are willing to be responsible."  Rudi

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

When people pick strong goals, with purposes and values that serve not only themselves but also serve others, their entire character changes." – Takashi Harada

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." Gail Sheehy

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature . . .

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.

9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs. Monumental gains, Feldenkrais discovered, are made not by mechanical movement but by the opposite—random movements. Children learn to roll over, crawl, sit, and walk through experimentation. Most babies learn to roll over, for instance, when they follow something with their eyes that interests them, then follow it so far that, to their surprise, they roll over.

Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.

8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn't correct errors or "fix" people.

The neuroplastic brain evolved in ambulatory beings who ranged around the world, always having to explore unknown territories. In other words, the brain evolved to learn. As people become immobile, they see less, hear less, and process less new information, and their brains begin to atrophy from the lack of stimulation (unless they are fundamentally thinkers, and even then the neuroplastic systems require physical movement to generate new cells and nerve growth factor).

Nature has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

1. The mind programs the functioning of the brain. We are born with a limited number of "hardwired" reflexes, but the human being has the "longest apprenticeship" of all animals, during which learning takes place. "Homo sapiens," he wrote, "arrives with a tremendous part of his nervous mass left unpatterned, unconnected, so that each individual, depending on where he happens to be born, can organize his brain to fit the demands of his surroundings.

We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless-a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

Dr. Bastiaan Bloem,

The glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) that he referred to is a brain growth factor. It functions like a growth-promoting fertilizer in the brain. GDNF is made by glial cells, one of the major types of cells in the brain. Fifteen percent of our brain cells are neurons; the other 85 percent are glial cells.

physical exercise and learning work in complementary ways: the first to make new stem cells, the second to prolong their survival.