Robert Musil Quotes

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

Every act is an act of self definition.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

Figure out who you are.

I want to figure out myself as a man.