Quotes About Self-discovery

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

Because I never attended elementary schools of any kind, I missed most of the books that were popular with other kids my age. There was an exception, however, which was 'Harry Potter.' My grandmother gave me the first book when I was about 13, and I read it, then read all the rest.

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of anything else or creating any other dream.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

My advice to young people everywhere: Choose schools that encourage self-discovery early on. Don't be afraid to buck convention. And when someone asks you what you want to do with the rest of your life, take the time to really think about it.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

Over time, with my matches, I convinced both the fans and the coaches that my style was the best for me, and they understood who I am, and that is who I am today.

The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

When you've grown up always knowing that there's something that seemed to be different about you from most people - and not being able to understand until my mid-forties that what we were talking about here was autism - I've had to learn an awful let about myself and what I can and can't do and what I can or can't cope with.