Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

Maybe we all change over time.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

You could ask yourself, 'Hey, when you were 20, are you the same person?' You're not. You may have the same values, you might look a little older, you might have some things that are the same, but your heart, everything about you, starts growing, changing - good or bad. It just depends on how you approach life.

If I was staying the same, then I wouldn't be evolving and changing and that would be boring and that would be unhealthy.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.