Quotes About Outgrowing

#1. The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Thornton Wilder

#2. 'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Steve Erickson

#3. There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.'

George Saunders

#4. The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.

Walt Disney

#5. I believe if you don't keep constantly pushing the envelope and outgrowing yourself you're going to get real old sooner than you think.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes, their shoulders widening and pulling the fabric of their coats taut.

Ayana Mathis

#7. He was only now outgrowing his playboy phase, groping his way out of frivolity the way others might grope their way out of atheism.

Robert Silverberg

#8. Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#9. Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#11. Take heart and dive into the quiet maturity of autumn.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#12. Don't be a prisoner of the past, become a pioneer of the future.

Farshad Asl

#13. What're quantum mechanics?"
"I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Alice Englert

#15. Agrabah is yours."
"No," Jasmine said, looking out at the sea of guild leaders, and the thieves, and the genie, and all the people of her city.
"Agrabah is ours.

Liz Braswell

#16. We all have a newfound strength, in that we will never again "believe" just because.

Leah Remini

#17. George Washington ordered his Thai food on a laptop? Of course not. He called on the phone and dealt with the person who didn't speak English because he was a patriot.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?

Shannon Hale

#19. Bringing light of our personal and social consciousness to dark corridors of human pain that have long been neglected and suppress.

William Keepin

#20. There is a price to pay for pushing beyond everyone else's answers, and what I'm finding out is that I'm more than willing to pay it.

Matthew Quick

#21. As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Mark Sanchez

#22. Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg