Quotes About Growth

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

Ego = 1/ Knowledge: More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Chapter 6 Open Up Those Golden Gates

Emotional Vampires never grow up. Throughout their lives, they see themselves as victims of fate and the unpredictability of others. Stuff happens, and they just respond to it. As a result, they have no opportunity to learn from their mistakes, and they just keep on making the same ones over and over.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

A young population, then, can have contradictory implications for production, since such bulges in population can be an economic burden during the period that its members are infants and young children, but the bulge then contributes to a boom when those children grow into their productive years – and then again it becomes a burden when they grow old, especially if the

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the sower to see the harvest.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.

You can't wash away overnight several years of clockwork routine and constant disassembling of self.