Dean Kamen Quotes

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

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

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.