Nadia Boulanger Quotes

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.