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- Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience
- John Gruber, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
- The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
- Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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