Quotes About Growth

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable.

If you do something mechanically for years to come, you tend to think that is life, but put yourself in a totally bizarre location, and you tend to discover so many aspects of yourself and life in general.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I discovered myself!

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

There's a lot of ways someone can grow up, but one way is discovering your parents are not all they say they are.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.