Growings Quotes & Sayings

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself. — Joe Hill

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence. — Dalai Lama

Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun
that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughly
I do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea. — George MacDonald

We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic — Bob Proctor

It's been three years since I've touched someone. I don't want to give you pain with these hands. I just want to feel. — Keri Lake

I see myself as a bridge-builder who can understand both sides. — Julian Castro

Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation. — Adolf Hitler

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play. — Sue Wicks

I don't rehearse with my actors ... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on ... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed ... so you film reactions; you don't create them. — Ira Sachs

Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human
strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others? ... Will you love me even when I disappoint you? ... — Angela Thomas

The translation of joy into willingness to work seems to depend to a large degree on how much meaning we can attribute to our own labor. — Dan Ariely

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward. — Jane Asher

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that. — Maya Banks

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief. — Mary Archer

Our main question shouldn't be "How do I get my child to do what I say?" but "What does my child need - and how can I meet those needs?" In my experience, you can predict much of what happens in families just from knowing which of those questions is more important to the parents. You don't even have to know the answers they've found. The questions are what count. — Alfie Kohn

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies. — Jose Maria Aznar