Quotes About Growth

I am not a nostalgic person.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

I'm not a nostalgic person.

I started finishing 'Nostalgic' while trying to graduate at the same time. I graduated from high school, got my diploma, and my life just started when I completed 'Nostalgic 64.'

You get nostalgic and you'll get knocked on your butt.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

I'm trying to get every experience possible in a studio environment, because I want to be comfortable there. There are people that I dream of working with, and I don't want to walk into that situation feeling like I'm not good enough.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

I want to talk about what I'm doing now... I'm not interested in what I've done, I'm interested in what I'm about to do.

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

I don't look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I - personally, I'm not interested in my own past. I'm only interested in today - perhaps tomorrow.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

I think so much of real life is this avoidance of getting into the not knowing. So much of my life, I've been running from just admitting that I don't know.