Quotes About Growth

Every record I do does a little better than the last, which in turn makes me more stressed out.

I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself.

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

I've been put into a lot of situations that could be stressful. That's really helped me mature, both as a performer and as a man.

The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything.

I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

When things get stressful and crazy and you think to yourself, 'When will this get easier?' it won't, because that's what a career feels like.

Generally, we have competed with ourselves... because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don't want the process of growth to be stressful.

There have been some stressful months since taking over at Milan, but I think I've improved a lot in terms of character.

The idea of doing something that I've never done before, that presents a new challenge, that forces me to stretch in some way - that's kind of a perfect project for me, and especially something that has greater social, conversational ramifications. I mean what more could you want?

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

If you're a good actor, you should be able to do soap, comedy, Shakespeare, musicals, pantomime, and something like 'Frozen.' Of course, you will be better at some things, but who says you can't do them all? The intent should always be to stretch yourself and broaden your horizons.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.