Quotes About Growth

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

There's definitely a list of things I'd like to do. But there's been a lot of things I hadn't even thought would have been possible to do that I'd been able to do, so I think I'll surprise myself and keep breaking that glass ceiling to see what's next. Hopefully people get surprised - that's my main goal.

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

There is a lot of things out here that sometimes you don't realize because you're inside the circle, but once you're out, there's a lot of things that pop up, and you'd be surprised.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

'Fresh Eyes' was my own little discovery of having been in a relationship for a while and realizing that my favorite part of it is being surprised.

I've always been surprised at the number of people who think we've got it all figured out. It's incorrect, and it's a real problem.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

Life surprises you. It happens to the best of actors, we have good and bad phases.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.