Quotes about Personal Growth

I feel sad as I laugh; I didn't know love at her age. What did I do? I read books and studied. I listened to my parents and did what they asked me to. Even though, in the end, I never made them happy. I didn't like myself, and something told me I'd end up alone.

Studiando una lingua straniera in questo modo, non si può affogare. L'altra lingua è sempre lí per sostenerti, per salvarti. Ma non basta galleggiare senza la possibilità di annegare, di colare a picco. Per conoscere una nuova lingua, per immergersi, si deve lasciare la sponda. Senza salvagente. Senza poter contare sulla terraferma.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.