Quotes about Personal Growth

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

I'm the kind of person who thinks that if I score eight goals in one season, my objective must be to score nine goals in the following season. That's the kind of mentality I have.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

I got to work with Nia Jax when she just started, and that's just a whole other obstacle: like, I've never been in the ring with someone like her before.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Obviously going from an electrician to doing what I do now, the money is great. I can go on holidays now and do different things.

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.

I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

I may never wind up being anything, but I owe it to myself to build my integrity.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: Novik, Naomi. Spinning Silver: A Novel (p. 196). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

It will become stronger and more protective with use until one day I will cast it aside and walk unencumbered among all manners of men and, when I do, my name will be raised high on the pyramid of life.