Quotes About Growth

I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.

I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it's like a succession of different people.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

If you want to build a larger physique that actually makes you look like you lift, you need to train your shoulders, back, triceps, glutes, and legs more frequently. You probably also need to suck it up and train them harder than you ever have before if you want them to grow.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I sucked in school.

Middle and high school sucked.

My whole life, I thought I sucked. And then I get in here, and I grapple other people, and I'm like, 'I'm actually good.'

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.

One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.