Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.