Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

I don't like repeating things and look out for work that could challenge me.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

I love the term 'young actress' because it just means that I don't know everything yet, and I hope I never do. I won't. I won't ever know everything.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.