Quotes about "Change & Growth"

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. ”

Duty is not collective; it is personal. ”

No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of. ”

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. ”

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal. ”

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint. ”

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China. ”

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. ”

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress. ”

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that. ”