Quotes about Personal Growth

I thought of all the singers and dancers and trumpet players and sculptors and scribblers who had claimed to feel like people, finally here, in Paris, no longer shadows but people in their own right, an effect that possibly required more than twelve hours to take effect, and I wondered how these people were able to tell, so precisely, the moment that they began to feel like a person.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Janie had had no chance to know things, so she had to ask. Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day? In

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.

I feel like it has been a journey throughout the years to be accepting of my culture - I always felt different and not as accepting of it.

I've had a lot of accolades throughout my career, but that hasn't really changed me. I know that comes with the winning.

I've met a lot of people, interacted with them, and experienced a lot of things in my life that I try to keep in mind. Such large and small experiences are accumulated and incorporated into acting in various ways.

I've been told my whole life what I can and can't be and what I can and can't achieve.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

I spent six wonderful years at Stade Rennais... I'm proud of what I've achieved at the club.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.

There are things I need to improve on and things I need to adapt to.

The success of 'Humsafar' comes with an added responsibility that whatever I do next has to be as good if not better, and I also don't want to miss out on my son's growing up years.

I'm addicted to growth.

Every single match, win, lose or draw, there's something that we can improve on, and it's about us addressing that straight after the match.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.