Quotes about Personal Growth

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I experienced a lot while I was away from the industry. From being on Broadway to learning more about myself. Those are really the things that I'm writing about.

I really established my game and myself the two years I was in Indy.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

I think on some level, you always carry your first and biggest influences with you, whether it's the Allman Brothers or Col. Bruce Hampton, people that you learned a huge amount of what you do from. So it's always there.

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.

I don't think that you can just walk through life without all of your experiences informing your perspective on the world.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' has helped me shed my inhibitions. Dancing in front of an audience was not easy for me. But I managed it and got progressively comfortable with the audience as the weeks progressed.

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

I admit to have made some bad decision in the initial stage of my career and paid the price. I can't afford to do such a mistake again.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

That was my goal, initially, to make sure the difference could be seen; to make sure I was maturing over time and applying it to every fight so that every fight, you get a better fighter, a more evolved fighter.

Coming off a pretty significant injury for me with my shooting shoulder, I learned a lot about my character.