Quotes About Growth

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

I like to improve myself every day and whatever my performance, I will always believe I can do better.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

I've dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn't have kept me out for that long. I've had to deal with fears of not playing again, I'm a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

Over the years I've evolved a lot as a performer.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

For me, it's been a long road of growth. Not only as a performer but as a man, as a father and all that kind of stuff so at one point in my career I really just wanted to give up and hang it because I wasn't getting anywhere, I wasn't getting myself in good shape.

I wouldn't be the performer I am if everyone thought I was the best. Having people against you, or who don't quite believe in you, gives a lot of extra fuel to never settle.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.