Martha Graham Quotes

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.