Russell Simmons Quotes

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Your talent is in your choice.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

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

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Self-realization is great.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.