Quotes About Growth

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.

I did it all, man. My father worked with planting, leasing the land and planting corn and beans, things like that. My brother and I helped to harvest. At the time of planting, we would go along too. I think that made me become the woman I am today, strong and focused.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization.

There are pictures of me in the garden at the age of one with a little plastic club. I had no concept of golf but I loved hitting the ball. I could do it all day. Only when I got to five was I playing every day though.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.

I need to step up to the plate, and I can't be selfish, and I need to stop getting in my own way.

When you get in this profession, you want the coaches to put more on your plate.

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.