Susan Sullivan Quotes

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.