Quotes About Growth

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

A fallow field is a sin.

It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

I tell my daughter Nyssa, you should respect my work and I will also respect yours when you grow up, "Work is worship" is what I have told her.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!