Quotes About Growth

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

You can't live off your past.

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

My past is a bit checkered.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

Every team goes through a lean patch.

What I've always done in my past when life hit a rocky patch was run from trouble into the next relationship. I didn't realise it would be such a big deal. That was foolish.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

Every player goes through rough patches.

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

Every season has its bad patches.

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

Shahid is a paternal figure to me. He's almost like a teacher. All my life, I've learned so much by watching him. I can't possibly consider him as competition to me. In fact, I would say, we're a team.