“I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly." "She ugly." "He ugly." I hated it then, and I hate it now. I go past physical beauty; I tell people they have a beautiful spirit and that is something different.” PeopleDifferentPastBeautifulRememberSpiritHateGrowing UpGrowingI HateUglyHearingHatedPhysical Beauty Author:Jamel Shabazz
“My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.” DifferentParentGrowing UpGrowingStyleDadMy DadDrivenMumDifferent StylesMotown Author:Ella Henderson
“I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.” ThinkingWayWantWritingGrowing UpGrowingHonestBelievable Author:Ella Henderson
“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingHas BeensReasonSeemsSchoolYoungInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsInternetHigh SchoolDirectStructureMiserableTaoSimilarityBloggingNew GenerationYoung Writers Author:Marie Calloway
“I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and there were a lot of other issues I don't feel comfortable talking about publicly. I spent a lot of time in therapy dealing with these issues though, and I feel i'm finally starting to move past them.” FeelsPastMovingParentTalkingOpinionGrowing UpIssuesGrowingComfortableStartingTherapyAbusiveStepfathers Author:Marie Calloway
“I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.” ThinkingFeelsTodayGamesInterestGoneGrowingGenerationsInternetHarderAccessVideoTeenagerAmazedGone Away Author:Adrian Tomine
“Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!” IfsI CanSchoolDealsClassGrowing UpTeacherGrowingImagineHigh SchoolAnnoyingFourteenAnnoying Things Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.” WantedSportsGrowing UpGrowingFashionIndustryAuntCommentatorsFashion Industry Author:Olivia Palermo
“Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.” ThinkingImportantHardHomeGrowing UpGrowingMusic Education Author:Sean Mackin
“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.” IfsKnowsYearsArtPlaySchoolGrowing UpGrowingImagineMomMetsTenHigh SchoolMy FriendsMy MomEightQuittingPianoGentlemanClassical MusicViolinSubmergedUncool Author:Sean Mackin
“I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.” ThinkingWritingLooksHardMomentsKidsAgeEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingSittingEmbraceComing Of AgeEnjoying The Moment Author:Sean Mackin
“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsKindTodayYoungSocialGrowing UpGrowingFitPressureEmbraceSocial Pressure Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
“As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.” CharacterFilmGirlGrowing UpGrowingEnglandHistoricalSlaveLike MeBiracialGirls Growing Up Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.” FatherGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMusicianDoctorsCombination Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.” FeelsMadeI CanDifferentTodaySpeakGrowing UpGrowingProgressProudSouthMississippi Author:Viola Davis
“I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.” KnowsWantGivingFeelsHeartChildrenDifferentHardKidsActorsGrowsKnow HowGoneGrowing UpGrowingMy HeartAnd LoveMeetingsCaughtProfessionSpotsEnjoyedDifferent ThingsSensitivityCaught UpWrong ThingsWatsonEmmaChild Actors Author:Ethan Hawke
“It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.” WayWantGivingTryingWellsHelpingJobsNextWishRealizingInterestingRolesGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsJourneyAdviceProfessionNext GenerationBetter WaysWatsonEmmaBoyhoodColtrane Author:Ethan Hawke
“I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.” ThinkingFeelingsChoicesWinningSidesEconomyGrowingTablesCommittedEmployeeCollectivesBargainingCollective Bargaining Author:Mary Burke
“Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long time to see the world as I want it without constantly looking for approval. I still fall, but I'm better suited for survival.” WorldWantLongStillsFallGrowing UpDoubtGrowingFashionSurvivalLong TimeMotiveInsecurityApprovalQuestioningBreeding Author:Damon Runyon
“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.” FeelsYearsWantedRecordsGrowingFansNeededBandFindingsLabelsLos AngelesRecord Labels Author:Theresa Wayman
“The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.” MomentsProblemLosesBrainGrowingMomTerribleDiseaseConsciousAgingPassionatePopulationMy MomHorribleAssociationGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAlzheimerAlzheimer'sAging Population Author:Graham Shiels
“Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.” IfsWellsGrowingSecurityMajorsImpactClimateClimate ChangeIncomeInequalityWelfareAddressesGovernanceBreakdownIncome InequalityDisadvantagedPublic Welfare Author:Wesley K. Wark
“As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.” YearsFirstsMadeStillsEarthTogetherRememberStrongHoursCitiesGrowingBuildingProudSixChinaDeterminedAccomplishmentAmbassadorsWwf Author:Li Bingbing
“We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.” HeartHappensBornGrowing UpOur LivesGrowingJudgmentCriticismThings HappenRejectionComparisonApprovalFittingOpen HeartCriticism Of OthersNot Fitting Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.” YearsStillsImportantBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingPlanetsSummerTownsGrandparentWhat's ImportantBeautiful PlacesCroatia Author:Vanya Asher
“I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be bringing these New York Times best-selling books right into your living room on the small screen.” BookShowsReadingRoomsGrowing UpGrowingMysteryNew YorkMurderScreensSellingFriendlyNew York TimesLiving RoomNancySelling BooksNancy Drew Author:Candace Cameron
“I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it up and asks a deeper, darker question about the nature of not just humanity in the face of good vs. evil, but the challenges of everyday life. And I think there's something incredibly timely about that and incredibly relatable to anyone who's growing up. Because we're all growing up. We're all constantly evolving.” ThinkingIdeasChristianFacesHumanityEvilAsksLiteratureChallengesGrowing UpGrowingEverydayDeeperEvolveShakesConventionalEveryday LifeMagicianRelatableTimelyGood Vs EvilShake It Up Author:Hale Appleman
“I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.” WorldWantArtHardMomentsMightAgeDifficultChallengesCareersGrowing UpGrowingUniquePerformingPerforming ArtsBrackets Author:Ethan Hawke
“Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.” StillsGrowing UpGrowingSafeI RealizedMississippiSafe Places Author:Morgan Freeman
“To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet itÂ’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.” PeopleWorldGovernmentGrowingBiggerProtectionCorporationsProtector Author:Vandana Shiva
“It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.” FirstsYoungGrowing UpGrowingScreens Author:Ed Speleers
“Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.” TwoUseBigsGrowing UpGrowingBig ThingsTarantinoScorsese Author:Ed Speleers
“My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.” NeedsFeelsFirstsPlayForceRoomsActingGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkTheaterAssRehearsal Author:Paul Dano
“I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.” ThinkingTryingSometimesUsedMistakeGrowingUsed To BeUncomfortable Author:Steven R. McQueen
“I was in the process of growing dreads, they were down to my lip. I could whip them back and forth. Then I just thought to myself, "Is this really me? Can I really do this?" So I washed them out and went to the barber shop. I told them to give me a mohawk. But then there was this teenager also getting one. I couldn't do that.” GivingProcessGrowingGive MeLipsTeenagerShopsDreadBack And ForthWhipsBarbersMohawksBarber Shop Author:Nate Burleson
“You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.” Growing UpGrowingFansChampionshipLakers Author:Akeem Ayers
“I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.” WayGamesGrowing UpGrowingFansMy FavoriteExcitedPackersPacker Fans Author:Colin Kaepernick
“Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.” WorldWayShouldBeautifulSpiritGrowingPureBuddhistDirtyDirtMudSculpturePedestalLotusesDirty World Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of civilization. That's what I did as a show at the Palais de Tokyo, the 33 scenarios of how this civilization ends.” ThinkingMayEndsShowsGrowingCivilizationScenariosTokyo Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.” FeelingsStrongGrowingMovementPopulationScaryStrong Feeling Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing.” WantCountryPainCasesGrowingStudentsProgramGenreFrustrationEmailTransfersAbsolutely NothingAttendingIowaGrowing PainsGenre Is Author:John D'Agata
“I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.” ThinkingKindDifferentGrowing UpGrowingListeningDifferent Music Author:Courtney Barnett
“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.” KindHomeKidsWantedGoalWhiteGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsBrokenListeningAreasHip HopHipsHopsOaklandBroken Homes Author:Moshe Kasher
“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."” FeelsI CanReasonBigsWould BeAbleTurnsStuffSoundGrowing UpNiceGrowingMomYeahWestHip HopMy MomRapDrivingHorribleHipsHopsCoastBassGangstersWest CoastGangster Rap Author:Moshe Kasher
“In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard, and we could listen to that at full volume without fear of penalty, because my mom couldn't hear that either. I wasn't a huge comedy fan growing up, but I definitely listened to Andrew Dice Clay a lot.” HandsGrowing UpComedyGrowingHeardFansBrotherHugeMomMy MomMy BrotherThemeVolumePenaltiesClayAndrewDice Author:Moshe Kasher
“My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.” HomeJobsTermGrowing UpGrowingMomBusyMy MomGood JobProfessional LifeHome Life Author:Condola Rashad
“Jung said there are four archetypes adults go through, and these archetypes are reflected in the development of my work. The first archetype is the archetype of the athlete, reflecting the time in our adult life when our primary emphasis is on our body - what it looks like, how beautiful it is, how strong it is, and so on. We identify ourselves with our body. We are our body. Growing adults next move to what Jung called the archetype of the warrior. We take our physical bodies out there to do what warriors do.” FirstsLooksSaidBodyBeautifulMovingNextStrongFourGrowingDevelopmentAdultsAthleteWarriorPrimariesEmphasisReflectingPhysical BodyArchetypeJungNext Move Author:Wayne Dyer
“If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself.” IfsMayStillsImportantGrowingAskingProvidingStatesmenArchetypeQuota Author:Wayne Dyer
“Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.” IfsWorldHumansSaidStillsSpiritualSpiritJesusRealizingHuman BeingsGrowingThis WorldHighestReverseHuman ExperienceArchetypeSpiritual ExperienceSpiritual Beings Author:Wayne Dyer