Quotes About Growth

Books, the children of the brain.

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.

You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are long, and there's gonna be stuff people like and stuff that people don't like, and you try to get better every time, and always put something out that you're proud of. And let the chips fall where they may.

I am no more the 'chocolate boy.' Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.

I was in the choir before. I don't know if a lot of people know that.

Each day, I choose my age.

You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.