Quotes About Growth

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.

Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.

I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.

For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

There are so many talented actors in my contemporaries and my seniors... I seek inspiration from each one of them.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

I'm very grateful to have been able to work with so many talented filmmakers and actors during my career. I've learned so much from them. It's been my college, in a way.

I wasn't talented as a musician.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

Farhan Akhtar is very talented, and I'd love to work with him because I feel like he is one person I can learn a lot from.

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

I'm honestly just trying to surround myself with talented people that I look up to/feel like I can learn from.

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you're talented, people will find you. That's what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

I just want to work with talented people and learn from them.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.