Quotes About Growth

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people - and I put myself in this category - don't fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

When you put comedy in the room it's supposed to be in, you start learning it's a process. Not everything is a home run. You have singles, and you ground a few out. But ultimately, it's the journey you have with that comedian, whether it's ten minutes or an hour.

As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I'm not the same person as when I was 15 and I might not be the same person in ten years.

During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.