Growth : (988)

" I was a late bloomer on the career front. " - Margaret Trudeau

" Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. " - Leland Ryken

" It is good to follow one’s own bent, so long as it leads upward. " - Andre Gide

" You can’t hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise. " - Mel Giedroyc

" To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy. " - Shawn Achor

" Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it’s something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that’s what I try and do. " - Mick Hucknall

" I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don’t even think about it. I’m back doing those things. " - Dick Cheney

" One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they’re praised so often that it’s what they want to live as – brilliant – not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation. " - Carol S. Dweck

" When I was 17, I grew from being something like 5’2” to 6 foot – I grew a lot – and I don’t remember growing… I feel like the same thing is true of writing. You’re waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney, but you just fall asleep at some point, and then the magic happens. " - Zal Batmanglij

" When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. " - Anais Nin