Quotes about Personal Growth

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.