Quotes About Growth

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

I'm not gonna just disappear after one album.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

As I got older, I gave myself the space to be human and to have a minute and be disappointed and feel whatever I'm feeling.

After a disappointing game, we don't want to look back.

When you don't come up on the winning end of it, it is disappointing and you have to look at why that has happened.

I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

There are no disappointments, just challenges.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

I now have 10 years' more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It's the same in any walk of life, in any job.

I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, 'Well, that's pretty decent,' but I didn't have a discipline. I suppose I'm kind of a late bloomer.

When I think about football, I think about my love, my passion, what has football done for me as far as discipline, as far as learning how to lead. It taught me a lot about life.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.