Quotes About Growth

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.

Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.