John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

I'm a work in progress.

Everybody grows in their own way.

Life is a work in progress.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.