Tom Shadyac Quotes

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I am nothing and should be everything.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.