Quotes about Personal Growth

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

I did, like, two drop-in hip-hop dance classes when I was, like, 20, so I am no dance expert but I always love a challenge.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

I know what I know and I also know what I don't know, and I make sure I hire the right people who can teach me.

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

Everyone hits bottom their own way.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

I used to be a hitter when I was in high school.

I have not had any opportunity to develop any hobbies, habits, anything like that.

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.

Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

The only person holding you back is you.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

Pageantry isn't just about holding a title, it's also about helping women grow as people.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of the holes in my empire. I had to find holes and fill them with people who could do it better.

I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.

For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.