#humbling

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#address #because #believe #changed #child

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#because #bizarre #difficult #doing #getting

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#arrogance-and-attitude #humbling #pride #attitude

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service. ↗

— John Woolman

#fitted #his #humbling #men #providence

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#floored #gain #had #happened #humbling

Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer. ↗

— James Harden

#being #chance #country #feeling #finalist

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#also #being #boss #empowering #great

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? ↗

— LeBron James

#grow #grow up #household #humbling #i

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#impermanece #life #stars #life

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#being #branded #humbling #number #restaurant