Quotes about Personal Growth

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

With time, I've learnt that personal likes or dislikes don't count a lot.

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.

An artiste like me can never be satisfied because it is the dissatisfaction that helps me grow and achieve what I want to.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I couldn't really say yes or no to things because I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I feel really confident in the fact that I can really be distinctive on what I want and how I want to do things.

I knew 'Crenshaw' had elevated me and distinguished me.

Lord knows one can use a distraction during divorce, and it's great to feel you are again successful on your own, with your own identity.

I think it's good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments - there are less distractions.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

I experienced everything at FC Bayern.

I don't look at anything in my life as achievements. I look at them as experiences.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.