Best growing & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Made Film Watches Growing Up Growing Long Time My Friends Towns Classic Best Times Best Family Friends Growing Up

Author:Logan Lerman

“For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.”

Thinking Way Littles Reason Moments Kids Able Voice Growing Impossible One Thing Changed One Day Ashamed Relax Rolling Little Kid Growing Old Growing Older Mics

Author:Cat Power

“I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.”

Thinking Roles Growing Civilized Civilized Society Women's Roles

Author:Sally Quinn

“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.”

Thinking World Mean Growing Up Growing Driven Curious

Author:Louise Rennison

“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Helping Differences Growing Up Growing Organization Institutions Educational Making A Difference Scholarship Educational Institutions

Author:David Rubenstein

“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

Thinking Different Energy Felt Born Destiny Growing Up Growing Minutes Supposed To Be Destination Texas Intangible Intangible Quality

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.”

Thinking Way Kind Self Facts Kids Growing Up Growing Self Esteem Calling Comfortable Singers Esteem Cards

Author:Katey Sagal

“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.”

Thinking Children Littles Wanted Growing Up Growing Brother Only Child Little Sister Little Brother Single Child

Author:Mae Whitman

“I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.”

Thinking Book Kids Growing Up Growing Kings My Favorite Remarkable Favorite Book

Author:David Yates

“People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.”

People Thinking Christian Used Dark Growing Christian Inspirational Doctrine Brighter Unbelievers

Book:The best of Vance Havner

Source: The best of Vance Havner

“I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!”

Thinking Years Lasts Born Growing Up Growing Team Fans Dad Mad My Dad Likes Golden Enjoyed Eras Loud League Champion Village Last Year Shouting Liverpool Champions League Liverpool Fans

Author:Theo Walcott

“One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Problem Guy Suffering Wish Growing Up Issues Growing College Gay My Best Friend Friends Growing Up

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

People Thinking Firsts Believe Age Artist Growing Up Records Growing Youth Becoming Speech Responsible Obligation Amendments Freedom Of Speech Assured First Amendment

Author:Ja Rule

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Littles Different Real Growing Trouble Harder Hopefully Pushing Wow New Things Push Yourself

Author:Rian Johnson

“And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.”

Thinking Earth Spirit Religion Song Spirituality Stars Voice Knowing Growing Wind Conversation Plant Come Up Glad These Days Gardening Potatoes Flowering

Author:Opal Whiteley

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!”

“I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Ideas Hard Done Happens Felt Known Growing Hard Work Walking No Idea Dancer Working It Outsiders Perfectionist

Author:Misty Copeland

“With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.”

People Thinking Kind Helping Games Existence Growing Rate Speed Certainty Faster Technological Catching Catching Up Rate Of Change

Author:Gail Sheehy

“We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.”

Thinking Way Feels Today Opportunity Environment Cutting Growing Comfort Cost Comfortable Productivity

Author:Scott McNealy

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.”

“I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Lasts Young Next Virtue Growing Youth Generous Young Man Sentiments Old Man Acquaintance Growing Old

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Children Littles Together Wish Grows Growth Space Rooms Growing Plant Maximum

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Important Country Whole Courses Grows Growing Share Land Fairs Notion Silly Soil Why Not Lions Farmers Truck County Barns Tractors County Fair

Author:Joel Salatin

“I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.”

Thinking Wanted Guy Growing Up Growing Theater Als

Author:Charlie Day

“I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.”

Thinking Feels Littles Growing Up Growing Materials Terrible Greed Humble Shoulders Corporate Goods Household Emphasis Corporate Greed

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.”

Thinking Littles Real Might Fighting Courses Term Growing Progress Overcoming Developing Surprising Unwilling Idiosyncrasies

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.”

Thinking Giving Children Left Growing Evolve Not Afraid

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.”

“I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Kids Parent Opinion Know How Growing Up Wise Growing One Thing Appreciate Raised Different Things Hindsight You Think You Know Different Opinions

Author:Tiger Woods

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Certain Growing Up Comedy Growing Cynicism Indiana Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”

Thinking Problem Growing Up Growing Becoming Majors Cynical Sophisticated Major Problems

Book:I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil

“I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.”

“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.”

Thinking Kind Form Growing Tree Planets Elements Concepts Symbols Sculpture Oaks Regeneration Concept Of Time Growing Tree

Author:Joseph Beuys

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”

People Thinking Mind Country Death Dies Left Forget Growing Flower Honor Terrible Mourn Cotton

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.”

“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Thinking Writing Easy Stuff Brain Quality Company Growing Tree Influence Example Findings Sells Marketing Cells Department Exception Trends Publishing Emphasis Ink Brain Cells Illustrating

Author:Jabari Asim

“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”

“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.”

Thinking Feels Years Looks Mean Stills Done School Lasts Film Growing Particular Ten Hopefully Ongoing Milestone Film School

Author:Peter Jackson

“When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.”

People Thinking World Should Would Be Nations Growing Land Waste Resources Surface Commit Mars Settlement Colonization Unforgivable

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”

Thinking Knows World Littles Body America Night President Sleep Morning Growing Johnson Free World

Book:This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

Source: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Age Winning Growing Up Growing Basketball Seven Clubs Eight Gentleman Championship Veteran

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.”

Thinking Littles Growing Up Growing Figures Fame Who You Are I Realized Bizarre

Author:Tyler Posey

“If I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Different Helping Stories Joy Passion Acting Audience Issues Growing My Passion Good Story Inspiring Stories

Author:AnnaSophia Robb

“I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.”

People Thinking Men Way Kind Whole Used Culture Growing Civilization Pops Honestly Consumers Impress Pop Culture Mustache

Author:Nick Offerman

“People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.”

People Thinking Used Dark Growing Brighter

Book:The best of Vance Havner

Source: The best of Vance Havner

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