Quotes about Personal Growth

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.

Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'

I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I was a horrible student.

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

James Remar is a student of life.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.