Quotes about Growth

Contemplative prayer is a discipline that enables our developing relationship with Jesus Christ to reach stages of growth in union with God.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. "It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

Decisions are progress. Each one you make is a brick in your foundation. You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Start a business, not a startup.

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.