Kurt Elling Quotes

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

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

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

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

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

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