Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

I'm not maximized yet.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.