Quotes About Growth

I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.

I've gotten better every year. I'm only going to continue to get better and better, and I'm just scratching the surface. I'm 25 years old, and I've been hooping at a high level for a long time.

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

I haven't scratched the surface of what I can become offensively.

Just scratching the surface. It's just the beginning. I'm still young. I've got a lot of time to grow.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it's like, 'Oh, wait, I'm here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.'

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

I was real positive when I got out of surgery. I was going to attack rehab, do the little things and become a better person, a better player mentally. Once I come back, I know it's a long process, but I think I'll be better for it.

There was so much pain. Every time I grew, I had to go back in for a surgery. And I remember just being really, really scared but also, like, knowing exactly what to do. Like as a 3-year-old, I knew to crawl on top of the operating table.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.

It's a fight for every actor to surpass what they have done in their previous film, especially when it is accepted hugely.

If trade deficits are good, why is China so pleased that they run a huge trade surplus? It's perfectly obvious that if China hadn't been such a huge net-exporter, it never would have grown at the rate that it did.

One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.

I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!