Lewis Thomas Quotes

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Every act is an act of self definition.

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.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I'm still very much Kate.

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

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

You blows who you is.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

One creates oneself.

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'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.