Quotes about Personal Growth

You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

It knocks the rust off, going against a guy like Kevin Love.

The groupies, they been around since I was 16, that's when we started off doing the independent thing. I've grown up now, I'm a man, so it's time for me to make man decisions in my life so that's what I'm doing, and just jumping over that broomstick and tying the knot was one of 'em.

You only know what you know.

Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better.

There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

I wasn't that into it or that knowledgeable of fashion until I started working on 'True Jackson.' I feel like it was my duty to learn more because people would feel that I should because I'm on the show. So definitely, that made me more involved with fashion, and now I'm a little fashion guru. It's totally out of control.

You never really know what's inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.

I probably have a hidden issue, because before 'La Misma Luna' in 2007, I hated working with kids. But after that, I learned so much about how to handle a kid that I liked it. And then came 'Instructions Not Included,' and it was like, 'OK, now I think I've got it.' Life just kept bringing me projects with kids.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

I think when I started to get in shape and spend time at the gym, I could be better to other people and be better to myself and get back to loving fashion and experience it myself. I started to wear kilts and lace dresses.

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

El propósito de cada una de nuestras relaciones es ayudarnos a llegar a nuestro destino.

People have every kind of excuse for the bad state of their lives, but the truth of the matter is that a soul is put into a situation that provides the ideal conditions for it to do its job, whatever that may be. When we take full responsibility for ourselves, we become aligned with cosmic forces that are intent on helping us grow.

Although this book focuses on increasing your financial intelligence in business, you can also apply what you'll learn in your personal life.

Lo importante es el camino, no la meta. No se trata solo del logro de algo increíble. Se trata del propio hecho de hacerlo, día tras día, de tener la oportunidad de participar en algo verdaderamente increíble.