Quotes About Growth

I love the process. It's like I've fallen in love with the process of trying to become great.

When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the road for six years and have a house.

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

I work on myself all the time, and I'm constantly trying to learn and falling on my face all the time.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

It's just amazing being a parent, being a little nervous at first, but then everything falls into place naturally.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.