Quotes About Growth

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.

I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

People want something that's going to really separate them - something that will help them keep the job they have, get a new job, and advance their careers.

I will keep - try - to be, like, on a new level every day.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

I want to do everything to get to a new level.

These people you grew up with, they're important to you in your life. They've been there for you. They're your friends. They've seen you make it. They really are happy for you. But they see you with this new life, with a new set of friends, and it can be hard to balance that.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

We have so much left to experience and learn about each other - it's almost like we've been remarried with the show being over. Now it's a whole new life for us.

I found a new love of the game, and a new confidence and self-awareness of what I can bring to the game.

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

Over the years, I've tried to find myself, tried to find out who I really was. I ended up coming full circle, a circle that took me back to that street fighter I started as: Diego Sanchez, from 'Burque,' New Mexico, fighting on the streets.

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.

It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

We all need challenges at work, or else it would be considered play. When you can't seem to grow with the job or move forward, it's time to start looking for a new one.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.

I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor.