Horace Silver Quotes

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

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

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I had done a bunch of stuff before I even went to Disney. I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.