“I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.” PeopleI CanFeelingsAsksCompanyGrowingOfficeFingersPracticalsPulseCubicles Author:Kevin P. Ryan
“Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.” FeelingsRememberAsksGrowingSeeingMeaningfulCoincidence Author:Ansel Adams
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.” ShouldEarthAsksAnswersNumbersGrowingPlanetsMoonAppealsSiteMarsSomewhere ElseAdvancing Author:Gerard K. O'Neill
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.” IfsMenGivingSoulAsksEnjoyNumbersGrowingPlanetsProveSlaveKillingBoundsNobleAppealsDefeatedRejectedPrivilegedVulgarDestinedBetrayedOur PlanetAllegianceFree ManPretentiousNoisyContainingIsmsPosing Author:Savitri Devi
“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.” WantHeartAsksRealizingMy OwnSituationCourageGrowing UpGrowingBrokenBroken Heart Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'” NeedsI CanHelpingAsksRealizingSupportGrowing UpGrowingWeaknessRelyNeed HelpSupport Systems Author:Kerri Walsh
“When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.” ThinkingLooksKindMeanI CanAsksInterestingEffortEconomyGrowingEconomicWindowGreenMathematicalEnlighteningBackyards Author:Lawrence Summers
“For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.” WorldChildrenAsksSpaceGrowingPossibilityBecomingLike HerPredetermined Author:Maxine Greene