Quotes
Authors
Steve Goodier
"To say, “I've been converted and that's that,†is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die." --
Steve Goodier
#Growing Quotes
#Quitting Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
“The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
“I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.”
“Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.”
“But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.”
“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”