Quotes About Growth

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

By always looking out and always moving myself forward and being disciplined and being open to new experiences, I think that's how I was able to diversify because if it felt right to me creatively, I went for it. It didn't matter if I knew how to do that, I just did it because my creative heart felt pulled to it. That seems to have worked out.

I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

When I do work, I choose to see every job as an opportunity to grow, as an actor and as a person. My favourite part of it is being part of a team, with everyone pulling in the same direction.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I'm very proud of 'Calvary.' It's been doing well; it has legs. It's no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

Driving to set for 'The Rig', the route went right past my old secondary school. Every morning when I was going to work, I was passing Leithy and thinking: 'Oh my God, there's where Billy Gilfillan punched me in the mouth' or whatever.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

I'm super proud of myself, not because I can throw punches inside a ring but just because of my journey and who I proved that I am.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

I don't really know who I am. I used to get scared at that thought, but now I've stopped punishing myself for not knowing.

Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you're in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.