Quotes About Growth

I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.

If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

It's a game of adjustments. Your hands aren't going to be in the right spot 100 percent of the time.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

I've pretty much been in every situation in terms of the roster... like roster spot 1-15.

Music as a whole industry is growing exponentially, but in terms of the actual music file, when you look at the actual value there, to me, 'The Beatles' catalog should be worth more than Spotify.

I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that's what country music is now.

I'm not having to grow up in the spotlight as a 14- or 15-year-old.

A lot of kids my age can make a lot of mistakes, but college athletes that are in the spotlight, you have to grow up so much faster than regular students or regular kids your age because you are a public figure, so you get one shot, sometimes two.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

I've discovered myself a little more, personality-wise just being put through certain situations, whether being in the spotlight, heartbreak, friends coming and going, family.

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

A lot of things I did were cringy. I look back at interviews, seeing the way I talked and the way I am, and it is embarrassing. I came back from the Olympics, I was shoved in the spotlight and I couldn't cope that well.

I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.

The bigger you become as a player and the more success you have as a player, the spotlight definitely becomes brighter.

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.