Quotes about Personal Growth

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

I have always felt that my issues are my issues.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

I didn't know how to deal with real life issues the right way as a humble human being until I was humbled to the point of being put in a jail cell.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

I'm not the biggest fan of New Year's resolutions, but I'm a huge backer for real life change - that's why January gets me so geeked up.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

I thought I could go and make a bigger name for myself on the independents and possibly in Japan, places like that.

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

Honestly, I just needed some guidance my rookie year. I needed to know what to wear, and where to find stuff. It took me like three years to find jeans that fit me!

Much like Jennifer Lopez or Ricky Martin who might have started with a hardcore Latin fan-base, I'll always remember what my foundation was.

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

I've exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.

I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.

I'm a pretty laid-back person but when I first played on TV against Jimmy White at the Masters it was daunting. The more times you play you get used to it and you eventually come to love it.

I don't really care about job security.

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.