Quotes About Growth

There's a lot of growing you can have when you're in adversity, when you're in a losing situation.

If we have to battle through some adversity during the year, sometimes that can be the best thing for a team.

Adversity is a huge advantage - as long as you think of it as an advantage - because it helps you do things you never thought you were capable of doing.

We've all got to deal with adversity in life. It's something that's not new to me.

Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

Everyone has a past, but I try not to let that affect the way I see them; I want to get to know who they are today.

I work too hard to let something affect me that's already happened.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

Voicing the role of Minnie has deeply affected me in many ways.

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

My development at every age group was good. If I was playing in one age group, I always wanted to play the year above.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged.