Quotes About Growth

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

[Payne] was a really great experience, and both John [ Larroquette] and JoBeth [Williams] over the years, it's been great reconnecting with them and working with them on other projects as well.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

We need experience to release what matters.