Quotes About Growth

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

It's a strange thing to keep having this image of you at the age of seven, 12 or 14 as the one that everyone not only remembers you by, but wants to think in some way that you still are.

My professional life, in a strange way, has always been going up, up, up, while my personal life was just the complete opposite.

Throughout my life, I've seen that everybody has had something to teach me and, strangely, it's always something relevant to what I'm going through at that point.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

I'm looking for the thing that is different from the antagonist in 'Stranger Things,' different from the protagonist in 'Power Rangers,' and something that will really continue these two amazing opportunities I've been given.

Middle school left some scars, as I'm sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers.

Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.

Having strangers bash you is something you never get used to.

I used to just go up to strangers and tell them really elaborate stories about who I was and where I was from and try to spice my story, which I didn't think was very exciting at all. That gave me a sense of life, a sense of excitement - but I don't do that anymore.

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.