“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.” DifferentCultureBlackInterestingCitiesGrowing UpGrowingMiddleEasternJerseyDifferent CulturesJersey City Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.” ImportantMorningGrowing UpGrowingNewsSingingRadioHearingDancerCoastTap DancersDurban Author:Roselee Goldberg
“It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.” InterestingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingSouthExtraordinarySouth AfricaMulticulturalismVery Interesting Author:Roselee Goldberg
“You're growing and changing, and eventually, you can go from having all these friends to feeling like you have no one, because you've been betrayed, or you've gone through things. But in this moment, I'm in such a good place with my friends. I feel confident and I'm happy there are people who I can truly trust in my life.” PeopleFeelsI CanMomentsFeelingsGoneGrowingLike YouMy FriendsBetrayedGood Place Author:Selena Gomez
“When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.” WritingWellsLongIdeasPracticeGrowing UpGrowingLong TimeNo IdeaJournalWriting Life Author:Dani Shapiro
“I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.” FeelsMindBodyAgeGrowing UpGrowingConversationBoundsYour Body Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.” FeelsGrowing UpGrowingVery Cool Author:Alice Lowe
“However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.” NeedsSchoolFoundGrowingSingingHigh SchoolGuitarPianoHobbiesAdoptedHalfwayNeglected Author:Kina Grannis
“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.” ThinkingRealityKidsYoungRaceGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMixed Race Author:Matt de la Pena
“We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.” ReasonProblemDealsAttentionBrainWonderGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsDevelopmentBecomingQuittingReason WhyReportsI QuitShrinkingAttention SpanBrain Development Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.” YearsFirstsBookAbleOrderThreeFoundSocialLinesBrainGrowingMediaCoupleInternetPagesFirst TimeDirectDown AndSocial MediaWanderInabilityStimulationLatentSynapses Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.” IfsLittlesHappensKidsAbleAbilityWonderGrowing UpGrowingKids Growing Up Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.” WayWellsTwoWarAgeYoungMotherFatherParentWaterHurtMy OwnGrowing UpAliveGrowingDyingIdentityMonthsFindingsAbuseDrinkingTraumaSavedTraditionalPsychologicalDrunkDriversGangYoung AgeMedicationTwo MonthsCultural IdentityDrinking With FriendsHurting Myself Author:Adam Beach
“Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.” PeopleWorldRealGovernmentGrowingConformityReal WorldLargesse Author:Michele Bachmann
“I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing and figuring out new things and hopefully people will follow me along as I publish these things.” PeopleWantIdeasFactsChallengesCareersGrowingFindingsProjectsHopefullySupposed To BeUnexpectedNew ThingsPublishFollow Me Author:Colson Whitehead
“Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.” BookCultureGrowing UpGrowingEastLocalsPursueLandscapeNativeNative AmericanCowboySan FranciscoPioneersSpunDizzyUp North Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.” FeltImaginationChurchGrowing UpGrowingMysteryTreeOceanCatholicGreenLandscapeGiantsMy ImaginationCatholic ChurchEmbeddedTropicalSeamless Author:Karen Russell
“I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingHigh School Author:Vanessa Ray
“I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.” CountryGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpMy FamilyCampingRvs Author:Kirsten Lepore
“Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.” ThinkingWayFirstsWarDoneStarsGrowing UpSawsToo MuchGrowingThese Days Author:Gabriel Campisi
“I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.” KindLongDoneGrowing UpGrowingSceneKarate Author:Suki Waterhouse
“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.” ArtArtistGrowing UpGrowingBecomingCircumstancesArt IsWealthy Author:Kesh
“I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.” KnowsWorldArtMadeWholeHomeDecisionGrowing UpGrowingInternetWhole WorldGalleryArt Galleries Author:Kesh
“One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.” PeopleMeanIdeasBigsGrowing UpGrowingInternetRaisedPhonesMythDigitalAppsAdept Author:Astra Taylor
“When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.” PersonsStoriesKidsAgeEmotionGrowingTalentAddInstinctHopefullyTrajectoryRaw TalentRaw EmotionDirecting MoviesGrowing As A Person Author:F. Gary Gray
“I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.” ThinkingChurchMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingSundayRecalls Author:M. Ward
“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.” WellsKindDoeSeemsSongCoursesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingCenturyListeningGrewGrew UpEnglandObvious21st CenturyCuzObvious ThingsOld Music Author:George Ezra
“No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.” StillsHardGrowing UpGrowingFansHugeInspiredObsessionEleven Author:Stacey King
“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.” ThinkingYearsKindStillsHardCharacterTodaySchoolJobsLawInterestingGrowing UpEnvironmentWifeGrowingMonthsFitBenefitsMy WifeQuittingBoredGirlfriendFlawsConformityPanicPregnantMinimumSeniorIn-lawsMy GirlfriendMinimum WageUtahWere PregnantSenior YearCharacter FlawsGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.” KnowsKindSchoolReadingLostSportsInterestGrowing UpGrowingGradesPlaying Sports Author:John Brandon
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.” WorldStillsCountryGrowing UpGrowingSouthArtisticSouth AfricaApartheidSubversiveBanned Author:St. Lucia
“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.” FeelsKidsCitiesGrowing UpGrowingEffectsNew YorkGrewGrew UpNegativeSouthInternationalPopsAffectedNew York CityExposedSouth AfricaPop MusicConnotationSubcultureAfrican Music Author:St. Lucia
“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.” StatesGrowing UpGrowingConversationSouthSouth Africa Author:St. Lucia
“When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.” IfsGrowing UpGrowingHappenedSeriousPhonesCellsPlanesRescueCell Phone Author:Leigh Newman
“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.” ThinkingSeemsKidsGrowing UpGrowingChaosInevitablePermanentSurroundings Author:Leigh Newman
“I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.” Growing UpGrowingWorstHairRoughThis DayGood Hair Author:Lights
“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.” IfsTryingIdeasArtistNextLinesAnswersLevelsCreativeClearGrowingRiskCommunicationHabitRewardsIncrediblesCrucialNew IdeasReapNext LevelLines Of Communication Author:Wendy Starland
“Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.” PeopleWantYoungFunGrowing UpGrowingCrazyResponsibleHaving FunBeing ResponsibleBeing CrazyInvincibility Author:Rihanna
“I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.” PeopleEndsGrowing UpGrowingTeachingHairLuckyOverwhelmingThickPonytailsThick Hair Author:Crystal Renn
“I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsWritingStillsI CanFeelingsGrowingChangedResponsibleWork OutDenyGrowing OldGrowing OlderThings Have Changed Author:Denise Duhamel
“Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.” IfsThinkingOrderGrowingHonestListsEvolve Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.” PastFilmCareersGrowing UpGrowingHeardMovementDirectorsLateFeministFortunateFilm DirectorsFeminist Movement Author:Chris Hegedus
“I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.” KidsWantedChoicesGrowing UpGrowingGroupsBandOutsidersCranberries Author:Dawn Angelique
“The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingSmellSpeedAgentsGasBikeLiquid Author:Rachel Kushner
“I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.” PeopleWantDifferentGrowingSurprising Author:Aubrey Plaza
“I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.” DifferentBeautifulYoungCultureLeftMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandFilledProfoundDepthFabricDifferent CulturesFond Memories Author:Samantha Newark
“I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.” FilmGrowing UpGrowingFansLandHugeFavouriteAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Bryce Dallas Howard