Quotes About Growth

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all.

If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Great work is always shunned at first.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.