Daniel Boulud Quotes

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

I think everything that happens to you becomes a part of what you end up doing and being and standing for.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

Your past always leads to who you are.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling' is really not a wrestling book. It's a book about life, and there's a great love story in this book. There are great life lessons in this book about not allowing others to define you.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.