Top 25 Quotes About Outgrowing Things
#2. The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
Alan Dershowitz
#3. Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Brad Pitt
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that.
Meryl Streep
#9. If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Lukas Foss
#10. When you have the opportunity, you strike.
Rod Laver
#11. The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
Warren Littlefield
#12. From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.
Daphne Guinness
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. He listens to his trainer real good. He just doesn't listen to me. I still can't get him to do nothing.
Evander Holyfield
#17. The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
George Washington
#18. When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
Robert Bateman
#19. 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
#20. '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
#21. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
Michaelangelo
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