My business acumen is definitely growing.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Nobody’s indispensable.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Change in all things is sweet.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.