Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.