Quotes About Growth

Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. You got kids like me who haven't hit growth spurt yet mixed in with these gorillas who need to shave twice a day.

This morning he told everyone that he's a "big boy" and he's giving up his pacifier for good. Then he threw his favorite binkie in the trash. Clap clap Clap clap Well, that New Year's resolution didn't even last a full minute. suck suck suck The only person in my family who didn't come up with a resolution is my older brother, Rodrick, and that's a pity because his list should be about a mile and a half long.

the brain is like a muscle, and if you don't exercise it by reading and doing creative stuff, it'll get weak and mushy.

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

Von Liebig's Law of the Minimum states that if one nutrient doesn't reach the minimum required by a plant, then it doesn't matter how much more of the others you apply. In short, the barrel will only hold up to its lowest stave.

If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.

Our daily words and actions lead to decisions, our decisions create habits, and our habits create our future selves.

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

Everything is always in motion. Every day, every moment, your life path is either curving upward, or curving downward. Growing up we heard five times as many nos as yeses. Life has a downward pull. People on the success curve live in responsibility. People on the failure curve live in blame. People on the success curve are pulled by the future. People on the failure curve are pulled by the past. No matter where you are, at any moment you can choose to step onto the success curve.

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are either improving or diminishing in personal and professional value.

One last thing about past and future—and I have saved the best for last. You can't change the past. You can change the future. Would you rather be influenced by something you can't change, or by something you can?

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won't see it happening at first.

Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.

Successful people fail their way to the top.

by adding those little grams of success, one at a time (and by not adding more weight to the failure side), you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor.