Quotes about Personal Growth

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

I went to beauty school when I was 19 because I thought it seemed funny, not because I thought I'd be good at it. I was terrible at first. I gave a girl a perm, and she cried.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

My family is my biggest critic.

I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

I just never learned to think critically.

I take the constructive criticism only.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

Dad is the one I turn to for critique. It helps me to keep growing. When he said 'I am so proud of you,' it meant so much to me.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.