Quotes About Growth

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

People think the end of a relationship is a bad thing, but it can be a natural thing.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

We've all done a lot of bad things in life. And I think you have to learn from what you do, and really think about, after you've done those mistakes, how to not do it again, and how to approach things differently.

I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way.

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

If you play badly and lose, you're left with nothing. If you lose but play well, you still have something. You have something to build on.

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go back to a little singing.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.