Quotes about "Change & Growth"

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance. ”

You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe. ”

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope. ”

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well. ”

We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency. ”

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend. ”

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ”

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one. ”

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. ”

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea. ”