David Mitchell Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.