Quotes about Personal Growth

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I just gotta keep improving until I know that if I end up in a certain situations I know that I can feel comfortable.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I want to continue to improve as the years go by. In fact, my goal is to improve with every session.

In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But as the days progressed, I learnt to handle them much better.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

If I'm too busy looking in the past, how can I see what's in front of me with the future?

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.

I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

'Dilwale' has increased my audience reach; I have gained in every way possible.

At the beginning, when I did 'Yeh Saali Hai Zindagi,' I got a lot of love, which is ever increasing.

Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.

I am deeply indebted to Georgetown University and the basketball program for all they have done for me.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.