GT Geoff Thompson Author “Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.” Writing Challenges Growth ♥ 3
Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer “Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.” Expression Growth Degrees ♥ 3
Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer “Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.” Might Growth Soil ♥ 3
HS Hedrick Smith Journalist “The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth.” Growth Retirement Conservative ♥ 3
HS Hedrick Smith Journalist “Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.” Mean Problem Growth ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.” Music Growth Ears ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.” Mind Spring Growth ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.” Religious Powerful Growth ♥ 3
Maria Montessori Educator, Physician “The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.” Mean Children Growth ♥ 3
KE Keller Easterling Architect “Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the growth of favelas and informal settlements. The 2008 financial crisis made these changes more extreme. The subtraction protocols rehearse a way of thinking about multiple properties in counterbalancing interdependence - not just the shaping of one property but the ratcheting interplay between properties.” Thinking Growth Financial ♥ 3
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.” Doe Age Growth ♥ 3
George Washington Military Leader, Politician “Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.” Love Passion Growth ♥ 3
