Quotes About Growth

Growing up in Africa teaches you to become patient.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

Every character, every story that you do, it teaches you a lot.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Life doesn't always go according to plan, and we don't always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

I just be teaching myself.

On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.