Quotes about Personal Growth

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.