Quotes About Growth

I got to work with Nia Jax when she just started, and that's just a whole other obstacle: like, I've never been in the ring with someone like her before.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

A lot of people love to throw the social climber thing at people who are on the rise, but it's really just God moving all the people that are distractions, all the obstacles, out of the way for me to achieve what I'm destined to achieve.

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

Every time you try to do something different, you have to expect obstacles.

I think it's really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I'm investing in for me. And I'm my own product as an actor. There's a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I'm making choices to obtain that.

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.

It was kind of obvious to everyone around me that I wasn't going to stay in the town I grew up in - I knew I had a dream of becoming something else.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

I'm never really just satisfied with where I'm at. I always just want to get better, improve more, learn as much as I can because obviously I have a lot to learn and a lot to get better at so it's all about improvement to me.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.