Quotes About Growth

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

It is not very good for your head if you go up and down and up and down. I want to try to keep going up, with my quality and with my decisions that I make.

It's been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.

At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don't want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.

It would be beautiful to be able to walk up and down Peckham still, because I love it; it's where I grew up. But it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people who love you but there's jealousy too.

If you see me when I first burst onto the scene, you see how quickly I could turn for a big lad and how fast I was up and down the pitch. Then I started picking and choosing my time to go forwards because I was scared of my hamstring going or my knee not dealing with it.

My first year in Germany has been something different for me. I think it's been a big step for me, a different style of football, and I think it's been good. It was a very up and down season for me.

I'm all about giving up-and-coming people a chance.

I love seeing the up-and-coming athletes finding success.

I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

I had a normal upbringing, studied in Chaitanya Vidyalaya till class VIII, went to Australia for two years, returned and did my Inter at Oakridge. I wasn't inclined towards academics. I barely scraped through.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.