Misty Copeland Quotes

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

View life as a continuous learning experience.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

You have to learn and keep learning.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.