Grow

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you, what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

Dreams grow holy put in action.

I've always helped polo to grow.

What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance, you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear, I prefer to be kind.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil, they just need a little water, and they will grow.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.

Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners, I grow my own.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.

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.

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

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.

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian, I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an entire new body, without a head, and stick it onto the cryopreserved head.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity, industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

My fans can see me grow up.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I didn't actually grow up in London.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.

We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.

If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions.

I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out, when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak, you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down, and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published, when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I think as any artist you always want to grow, you always want to get better.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge, they can grow up to 2 inches long.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

My father was a writer, I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music, we grow up with that.

When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

I remember just praying, 'Dear Lord, please let me grow to be at least 6 feet.'

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'