Quotes About Growth

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

I'm not a manager. I just try my best and see where it takes me.

There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

I've always been very competitive, and a part of that is pushing your boundaries - taking a risk and being able to live with the loss that comes with taking a risk.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.