Bonnie Hammer Quotes

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

It's never good to compare yourself to anyone, whether it's professional or personal. There is always somebody better, more talented and powerful out there. There is no point of getting sucked into all that.

It's really helpful to have somebody to bounce off of and that will say, 'Yeah, that's a horrible idea. You shouldn't do it.'

I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

Every job I took, I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified. Every step, every risk I took, built confidence.

I still feel like when I walk on the set, I'm starting from scratch, until I realize, 'OK, I do know what I'm doing. I'm human.'

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

I feel the first ten years of my career I really didn't care what the director said because I felt so arrogant. I was so certain about what should happen. But then I became a good listener.