Quotes about Growth

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Many people, in their attempt to build a successful life, forget there are tools to help them.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.