Quotes About Growth

I never wanted to be a one-dimensional player.

Fighting is an important part of my life, but it's only one part of my life. The last thing I want to be is one-dimensional, as a fighter or as a person.

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.

I'm not a good one-on-one player.

Because of Murray State's size, I was able to receive more one-on-one time with my instructors and also more stage time. This isn't necessarily the case at larger institutions.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Ever since school, I got a lot of attention as I was modelling and everyone knew who I was. As a child, you enjoy it. But one has to explore and doing things by oneself to learn that life is very large.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.

I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

I have a relationship with Christ and it is ongoing. I study my Bible, I do fellowship at a Church, it's a life thing.

I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse.

It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.