Chuck D Quotes

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

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

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.

Everybody grows in their own way.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

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

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.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

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

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

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.

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

One creates oneself.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.