Quotes about Growth

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.