Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

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 am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

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

One creates oneself.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

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

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

I just live my life.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

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.

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.

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

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)

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.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.