Ian Mcewan Quotes

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I invented myself.

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.

It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.