Quotes about Growth

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Happy is he that chastens himself.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

We grow small trying to be great.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.