Ron Eglash Quotes

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

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

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

One creates oneself.

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

I invented myself.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

My teammates and my coaches have all allowed me to step into my individuality and not be defined by just being a gymnast.

At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.