Quotes About Growth

For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

The plan was to create a agrarian buffer between the rapidly enveloping towers of New York and Brooklyn.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods. Literally, you're in the woods — probably too much you're in the woods. And metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life.

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.

It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it

older, I've got a clear space around me I didn't have before. I wonder if that's like a future, or a place where a future will be.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.