Laurence Housman Quotes

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Everybody grows in their own way.

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 say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

One creates oneself.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.