Quotes about Personal Growth

I'm certainly not the only person to have gone through a divorce. I'm not the only person who's had heartbreak.

Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

I have always held myself out as a hair culturist. I grow hair.

I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

I'm grown as hell.

Every time I put my helmet on it's a challenge.

I feel like I've experienced a lot to learn my own game but also to be able to help others as well.

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Meditation has been very, very helpful. You know, even if it's just 5 minutes a day.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Hey, I'm just another guy coming out of JC. That's the way I think of myself.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.