Nicholas D'Agosto Quotes

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

As you progress in your career, your character progresses and evolves.

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'

I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

There are times where fans don't understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, 'We like the way you used to be.' Or they say, 'We liked what you did then.' You can't stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It's something The Undertaker laid on me.

When I came to Chelsea and worked with Mourinho, it was my first time abroad, so that was an important stage for me.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

For me, that was a defining moment in my career, being at Chelsea, going through what has made me become a man in terms of my career. Even playing on the right wing helped my right foot, making me use it more, making me improve.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.