Quotes about Personal Growth

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

I couldn't have asked for anything better than 'Dangal' because we got to prove ourselves there in every way. The character has really changed my life, so it's really important to start off with a really good debut.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.

As much as I've always dreamed of going to college, I have to think about whether it is the right decision for me.

Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

If you're defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don't get bigger.

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.

A film career does not define me. There is a other side to my life.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I'm not defined by where I came from.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

My game isn't defined by points, it's more.

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.