Quotes About Growth

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

In one session, I saw a lady and a man learn to swim for the first time. Within an hour, the man swam front crawl for half a length, and the lady finished a full length with her head under water.

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped it.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

When we were very, very young, I was actually better than Cate was at swimming, and I was not very humble and thought I was the greatest thing ever and rubbed it in her face a bit, and then she started trying really hard and started beating me.

Though I do not know much swimming, I am glad that both my children are getting better at it day by day.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

I'm still learning about my swing more. I continue to learn, with the help of my hitting instructors.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

As far as working with Kanye and Solange, that was amazing. After 'Swing Lo Magellan', I needed a change. Getting to work in that capacity, writing for other people and working for other people as a writer and as a person who's not representing it as the front person or whatever - it's such a different perspective you can get.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

I'm understanding how to use my swing and working in the cage every day to repeat what I'm doing. Just not trying to do too much.

I wasn't the most talented player as a kid. Whenever I look back at the old footage, I didn't swing it very well and I didn't strike it pretty well, but I managed to score pretty well.

I can't imagine that I would be the person I am today if, over the last seven years, I had been married to somebody who didn't feel 100 percent comfortable with my drive, my ambition, my interest in thinking big and swinging for the fences.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.

It's very easy to make poor choices and have bad swings every now and then.

It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.