Quotes About Growth

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Every mother in the world knows this feeling one day... of emptiness, a time comes where you feel a little less useful because you're no longer running left and right. Life no longer has the same rhythm.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.

Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.