Quotes About Growth

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

I think for me, growing up as an only child, I didn't have a lot of people around me or a lot of foreign influences, so growing up, I really kind of got lost in my imagination - for the better.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I grew up as an only child.

I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.

I was an only child until I was six.

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.

Even little adjustments in promos or being a heel, different mannerisms in the ring, every week there's something I can do better. The only time I get flustered is when I try to do too many things at once. It's better to do one thing each week and work on that.

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I think I've had a bit of a stop-start career. I came onto the scene quite early, and then I paused for a bit.