“If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak.”
Source: All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business
“Whenever you are going through life’s challenges, remember that for iron to be cast into its desired form, it must first go through intense heat.”
Source: All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business
“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”
“Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you understand me?”
Source: The Viola Factor
“Reality told us we would fail. But again and again, we fought. We perserved . We rose.”
Source: Children of Blood and Bone
“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”
Source: A Chesterton calendar
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
“The job facing production managers focuses on how to help their team maintain hope while also addressing the sometimes brutal or dismal facts of their situation. If the truth of their position remains unseen, they will never grow the skills necessary to resolve it.”
Source: Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive