Quotes About Growth

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

When you strengthen your self-esteem, there is no room for jealousy.

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.