Quotes about Personal Growth

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day. Progress is definitely the answer.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that's what leads to growth.

Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

It has been more than 31 years for me in the cinema industry but I am still learning and my motto is the same as that of late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that.

Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started.

It's not like we grew up hanging around in church every day. We'll always stick to what we feel is right for us to do, and I don't think either of us have had a hard time saying, 'This is who I am, and I'm fine with it.'

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.