Growing Quotes

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

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

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.