Brian Ortega Quotes

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

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

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

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

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

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

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

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

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.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.