- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
- Handicapped
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.
- Haters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
- Mustache
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- Nov 07, 2020