Outgrow It Quotes

#1. The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Fred Brooks

#2. A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Andrew Solomon

#3. All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

Evan Esar

#4. I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,
& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it

William S. Burroughs

#5. The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Clifton Fadiman

#6. Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?"
"I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

Laurence J. Peter

#8. When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.

Ufuoma Apoki

#9. You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.

S.E. Hinton

#10. Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Isabel Allende

#11. A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

George Wald

#12. [On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

June Allyson

#13. Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Douglas Horton

#14. Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

#16. The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Norman Cousins

#17. If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

#18. But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.

Zoe Sugg

#19. We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson

#20. You want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#21. You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

Christoph Waltz

#22. If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

#23. The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions - and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

Ken Wilber

#24. When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Peter Drucker

#25. It's a constant process of hoping you won't outgrow the ones you love, while fearing they'll leave you behind as they change. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

Jeffrey Pierce

#26. Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

William S. Burroughs

#27. You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Jacque Fresco

#28. As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

Dallas Willard

#29. If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred

Christina Engela

#30. I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

Ed Weeks

#31. I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#32. There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Arthur C. Clarke

#33. As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend had in your life when he or she was a part of it.

Lindsay Detwiler

#34. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

#35. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...

Edna O'Brien