Quotes about Personal Growth

Pieces of my life, no matter how scattered, are being stitched together and reflect in my work.

I think it's important to reflect at the conclusion of each season. That should never change, in terms of how you evaluate yourself.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

A garden is a reflection of you, it's your presence in the world.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.

It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.

What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

I'm really growing as a woman, and it just reflects in the music.

The kids of America, please get a damn job. Get out of the house, leave the refrigerator alone. Stop wearing my shoes. Leave my shirts alone, get a job. Spend your own money.

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.

I've always been really turned off by a show where you're kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things that they do, or regardless of how their ego is clearly driving what they're doing.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.

But the concept that it's important to understand the individual and the person, as well as the footballer, is a helpful concept, regardless of the competition.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I don't regret leaving Napoli.

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.