Quotes About Growth

The complex develops out of the simple.

I always said... I want to be the one who creates jobs. I want to be the guy who develops the wealth of the nation.

The Device experience was amazing. I enjoyed working with everyone that I was blessed with the opportunity to work with, and you learn so much going outside of your normal world and outside your box, so to speak.

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Before my diagnosis with leukemia, two years ago at the age of 22, I'd always excelled at making resolutions. But I was never as good at keeping them.

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

I'm still Lil Xan. You can call me Diego if you want. My second album, I'm going to be full Diego.

I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

Compared to when I was 18, 19 or 20, I would say my diet is the big difference. It is much better.