Quotes about Personal Growth

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.

'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.

I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

I consider myself a little weak.

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.

I improved enormously, on and off the pitch, over that year at Swansea.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

It's been an amazing journey so far for me, in the places that I've gone and the people that I've met.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

The old Logan was plain old insensitive.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Arjun's character has brought discipline in my life. Now everything happens in my life well planned. Initially, I used to get up at any time, but now I get up at appropriate time, and I keep a check on my diet.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.