Quotes About Growth

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

I've taken a few public hits in my career, and I never hid the pain of it from my children. Nor did I hide the regrouping and rethinking that occurred after each one. After all, that process allowed me to re-emerge and go on to build a more impactful - and more engaging - career path than the one I had been knocked off of.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I'm a shark, and I swam in a lot of different ponds, but I'm ready for the ocean.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

I've had such an odd career.

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I feel offended when people bring up my four marriages. I was 19 when I first got married and I thought it would be for ever. But each of my marriages has added to my life and helped form me as a human being.

When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.

When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.