Quotes about Personal Growth

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.