Quotes About Growth

When you're young, you're still trying to find yourself coming into the league. I think Bron was trying to help me with that, but I was so stubborn back then.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

I don't know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.