Dendritic Growth Quotes

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living ~ Paul David Tripp

If you are newly diagnosed, experiencing a recurrence, or caring for someone with brain cancer, I urge you to dig in, carry on, and fortify yourself with the knowledge that personal growth may, in fact, be obtained throughout this challenge. When ~ Mindy Elwell

We need to have owned our stories before sharing them is experienced as a gift. A story is only ready to share when the presenter's healing and growth is not dependent on the audience's response to it. ~ Brene Brown

Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid.
Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.
Love me only for my soul, and I will grow. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years ... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had. ~ Dick Cheney

Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth. ~ M. King Hubbert

Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God. ~ Rick Warren

A person seeks to quantify their existence. Do we measure a person's life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthy deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how we live and how we die, if we love or hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubts and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses? ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things. ~ Donald Miller

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint. ~ George MacDonald

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population ... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense. ~ Paul Stamets

Be sure of this: when you make time for the Holy Spirit, He will make time to visit you. ~ Tiffany Domena

To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector. ~ Tim Walz

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins. ~ Sydney J. Harris

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf. ~ Jeff Leake

In a world where positive expressions of sexual longing connect us we will all be free to choose those sexual practices which affirm and nurture our growth. Those practices may range from choosing promiscuity or celibacy, from embracing one specific sexual identity and preference or choosing a roaming uncharted desire that is kindled only by interaction and engagement with specific individuals with whom we feel the spark of erotic recognition no matter their sex, race, class, or even their sexual preference. Radical feminist dialogues about sexuality must surface so that the movement towards sexual freedom can begin again. ~ Bell Hooks

Even when you love what you do, work is work.

By definition, the act of growth is defined by a certain level of struggle and a willingness to endure pain in the pursuit of progress. ~ Raymond Rasmusson

As your vibration increases, the more you grow spiritually, and become attracted to authenticity and less attracted to illusion. ~ Dee Waldeck

Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities. ~ John F. Kennedy

He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures. ~ Nikki Rowe

We all talk to ourselves, and when we keep telling ourselves something we eventually begin to believe it. ~ Michelle Lederman, 11 Laws Of Likability

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. ~ Cesar Chavez

Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. ~ Gary Chapman

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections. ~ Eric Kandel

When pretending starts, growth stops ~ Renae A. Sauter

Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success - without effort. They're wrong. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work - brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research by Dweck because it ~ Lysa TerKeurst

~MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE TO CROSS THE BRIDGE OF GROWTH TOGETHER~ ~ Shaun Upshaw

God ever works with those who work with will. ~ Aeschylus

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. ~ Joe Craft

Growth is a lot like Mother Nature. She can be very good and she can be very bad: think hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. ~ Edward D. Hess

Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields. ~ Carol S. Dweck

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society. ~ Maria Montessori