From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.
I haven’t come from a background where I’ve had it imbued in me from an early age that I’m destined to lead or to rule.
My goal from an early age was always to play in the NBA.
I played trumpet in school at an early age.
Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.
I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn’t really want to be out there, where you’re kind of afraid.
It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
I knew music was for me from an early age.
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like ‘An American Werewolf in London’ in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I’ve never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.
I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it to gain some sort of social credibility.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don’t know – was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.
At an early age, somehow we’re programmed to view other females as threats.
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn’t what I was after at all.
I was neurotic and weird from an early age.
People are branded as either ‘fat’ or ‘skinny’ from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
You know, I’m gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I’ve been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.
I certainly knew from an early age… how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people’s heads.
The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn’t a matter of, ‘Can I?’ or ‘Should I?’ It was just, ‘You can, you must, you will!’ She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the plate, then that’s fine. If you have one that’s slightly open, that’s fine, too.
If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I’m trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she’s not afraid of it.
To me, loving your kids means teaching them to make smart choices from an early age – not just handing over a sweet treat.
Riding for QuickStep was a dream of mine from an early age. I couldn’t let this opportunity go.
My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born – although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently – so I was just political from a very early age.
As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn’t interested in rugby at the time.
I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.
My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.
I don’t understand why youngsters today start hitting gym at an early age. I believe the right age for going to gyms is after 35, when you are neither young, nor old.
I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.
I really believe I’m no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It’s a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You’re acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I’m a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.
I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
From the age of five, I was organizing everybody’s everything. If I didn’t like the way it looked, I’d rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had ‘nervous exhaustion’? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, ‘Not yet!’ I pulled back.
You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.
As a kid, I got exposed to city government at an early age. I’m sure that rubbed off on me.
At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.
Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.
I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.
At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it’s a tool for making a change in the world.
