Quotes About Growth

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

I think I'm a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven't attempted before.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

Every human being goes through a period of time in their life where they feel like they've lost who they are, and they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

Jesus died when he was 33, and when I was 33, I was coming out of a failed marriage and was in a really low point in my life because I was really sad about that. God healed me so much during that period. So I loved that year because I leaned on God, and then, as a result, I started checking things off my bucket list.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

I am extremely bullish in the longer period.