growth Quotes

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.