#row

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

— Ben Folds

#fighting #grow #grow up #hurts #knows

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

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#applauded #evanescent #forgotten #popularity #today

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hundred #live #pray #tomorrow #were

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#count #down #get #going #his

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

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