- Nov 07, 2020
Grow Quotes
Growth rarely happens on a straight line.
Several of these reflect on how long it can take to feel ready for the next stage, and how growing up in a certain place shapes the person you become. For related ideas on adapting over time, see our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just figuring it out for 30 years - 30 years... I think I'm ready now to expand - to grow.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020