Quotes about Personal Growth

You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!

It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself.

Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

I went to Stanford.

Maybe I didn't take the advantage and become a star and get all the brands so that I could solidify my space in the world.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I started slow in life and made many mistakes but I have learnt from them.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that's when I really started to shine and find my own rhythm.

To look back where I started from, you can't help but be amazed.

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star - not a borderline all-star.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.