Growth quotes

Every wall is a door.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

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.

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

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

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

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

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.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

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

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

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

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.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Africa is on the rise.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

No driver is perfect.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.