Vincent Massey Quotes

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

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.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

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

I did find my direction at an early age.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.