Neri Oxman Quotes

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

One creates oneself.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

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

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Learn what you are and be such.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

I invented myself.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.