Best growing & persons Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.”

Knows Persons Would Be Faces Growing Up Saws Growing Events New York Television Huge Calling Like Me Asian Unheard Older Sister

Author:Yunjin Kim

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”

“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”

Wells Persons Real Community Wealth Growing Becoming Bases Independent Method Estates Sections Prosperous Selected Real Estate Investing Real Property Investing In Real Estate Becoming Independent

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.”

Persons Art Able Beauty Growing Sweet Flower Singing Art Is Cooking Add Meals Pet Parts Of Life

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.”

Littles Persons Light Spirit Night House Bits Dark Walks Rooms Darkness Growing Up Growing Doors Taught Little Bit Cracked

Author:Tony Dorsett

“Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.”

Persons Important Parent Goal Growing Essence Praise Rewards Setting Pursue Settings Setting Goals Better Person Essence Of Life

Author:Bob Proctor

“Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.”

Thinking Persons Home Growing Up Growing Shy

Author:Kerry Condon

“I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.”

Persons Stills Different Values Grows Moral Growing Up Growing Foundation You Live And You Learn You Live And Learn

Author:Ashley Greene

“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.”

Thinking Looks Persons Made Bigs Growing Fashion Bears Clothes Crosses Expensive Adolescence 80s Crosses To Bear

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.”

Persons Girl Class Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Sarcastic Clown Skinny Very Sarcastic Sarcastic Person

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'”

Thinking World Way Persons Character Growing Up Growing My Friends Boat Usual Imaginary Benches Sharks Lawns Fins Imaginary World

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.”

“I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.”

Way Feels Should Persons Young Growing Productive Realising

Author:Veronica Roth

“All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.”

Children Persons Parent Responsibility Growing Up Growing Rights Bears Blessed Titles Personal Responsibility Appreciative

Author:J. Edgar Hoover

“There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.”

“The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.”

Firsts Persons Self Young Used Learning Growing Youth Smarter Evident Indication Self-doubt

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”

Persons Different Form Language Results Growing Up Growing Shapes Details Branches Elephants Identical Twigs

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist.”

Persons Care Artist Realizing Growing Take Care Realization Limitation Maturity Being The Best Better Place Take Care Of Yourself Growing As A Person

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.”

Thinking World Needs Kind Persons Dream Kids Secret Growing Up Growing Exciting Awful Pretending Secret Life Dream World

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.”

“Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.”

People Ifs World Looks Persons Grows Growing Up Growing Proud Training Praise Very Good Boring Around The World Canada Civilized

Author:Mike Myers

“I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.”

Feels Persons Grows Acting Growing Up Growing Growing As A Person

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Persons Kids Moral Growing Up Nice Growing Dog Like You Standards Thoughtful Rude Nice Person

Author:Julianne Hough

“In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.”

World Persons Self Helping Bits Existence Growing Late Foolish Tiny Comic Growing Old Growing Older Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

Firsts Persons Self Challenges Growing Up Growing Century Planets Machines Twenties Definitions Acquire Organisms Transcendent

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."”

Ifs Heart Persons Said Play Care Beautiful Moving Used Father Growing Up Growing Notes Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Christopher Parkening

“Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.”

Persons Different Happens Able Sports Growing Up Growing Track Helmet

Author:Trevor Bayne

“Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.”

Persons Soul Culture Darkness Struggle Growing Make Sense Legitimacy

Author:James Hillman

“We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.”

“While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.”

Persons Home Leader Growing Tvs Office Stronger Library Average Titles Get Better This Day Gym Smarter Average Person Kinder Watching Tv Getting Stronger

Author:Robin Sharma

“Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.”

Way Wells Persons Certain Growing Up Growing One Thing Changed Like Me

Author:Agyness Deyn

“I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.”

Ifs Knows Want Persons Would Be Growing Up Growing Conversation Come Up Offended

Author:Nate Berkus

“I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.”

Want Persons Whole Character Shows Jobs Grows Process Challenges Growing Seasons Transformation Learning And Growing

Author:Justin Chatwin

“I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.”

Men Looks Persons Bigs Young Boys Growing Independent Priorities Young Man Family Oriented Independent Person

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.”

Knows Persons Matter House Water Answers Walks Rooms Growing Huge Goes On Empty Pops Seeds Boat Slides Words Matter

Author:Rumi

“My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.”

Persons Hard Kids Accepting Growing Up Growing Acceptance Independent

Author:Ray Romano

“Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.”

Knows Persons School Growing Up Growing Type Invisible Shy Nerd

Author:Jenna Fischer

“Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.”

Persons Made Growing Up Growing Motivated Better Person

Author:Raekwon

“Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.”

Needs Should Persons Form Humanity Love Is Growing Teaching Childhood Subjects Communication Core Supreme Agents Developing Hierarchy Curriculum Early Childhood Need Love

Author:Ashley Montagu

“True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.”

Persons Self Grows Pleasure Growing Insight Fleeting Gratification True Happiness Immediate Gratification

Author:Aristotle

“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.”

Persons Stories Kids Age Emotion Growing Talent Add Instinct Hopefully Trajectory Raw Talent Raw Emotion Directing Movies Growing As A Person

Author:F. Gary Gray

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