#grow

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choose #freedom #growth #lies #our

When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn’t raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#growing-up #memoir #family

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. ↗

— Bill Ford

#being #believe #ceos #close #companies

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#continual #growth #improvement #meaning #progress

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#case #dwarfed #flower #flowering #freely

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#being #ever #explorer #gave #go

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#around #career #going #grown #had

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things. ↗

— Megan Fox

#biggest #books #comic #comic books #doing

I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have. ↗

— Megan Fox

#become #confessions #consider #different #different person

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five