Quotes About Growth

The fight with Holmes was a plus. I gained so much experience.

What's different is with every successive year, as we launch a thousand plus features and services, we just have the capabilities to make it easier for the rest of the market to use us.

When the Lakers sent me down to the D-League, I didn't view it as a demotion. I accepted it as a challenge. Plus, it meant playing more minutes, which meant growth.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, 'OK, let's try some of these things.' And once you try something you like, you probably don't change it much.

My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.

I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

As you get little pockets of success, then suddenly the light bulbs go on in everyone's head, and more leaders get more confident and make more, bigger decisions, and customers respond well, and it becomes a bit of a flywheel.

I look for ways to try to build the sport, ways to put more fans in the seats and more money in our pockets.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.