Quotes about Personal Growth

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

I'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in the summer of 2008.

I try not to think about where I would be now if I had stayed in Wolverhampton. Jail. That's the way I would have seen it. It was just part and parcel of where I grew up and the lifestyle I was in.

Ballykissangel' made me a household name, and I am enormously grateful for that, but I don't feel it would ever have developed me into a better actress had I stayed.

The reaction to 'Dev D' success wasn't a balanced one from my end. I ran away! I should have stayed around and seen how I could balance things. But I wasn't capable of that.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I stayed at Morgan Stanley for 27 years because it was fun. I kept learning.

I went to Italy as a 21-year-old when I could easily have stayed in Argentina, playing for the biggest club in the land, River Plate, and having a nice, comfortable life.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.

Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.

It was tough being alone and not having parents around when I was going through high school in terms of staying disciplined, but I adjusted, and stayed focused.

I'm always on my kids so hard about staying in school and getting their education and I ain't got a GED. I wanted to do that for my kids and for my momma.

Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time.

Every character gives you something or the other, and you can't calculate it unless you are living the character. You learn something about the character that stays with you.