Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

For me, my life is a journey.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.

It's nauseating for me when I feel like I'm not growing or challenging myself.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.