Michael Gurian Quotes

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.

I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going to basketball camp and doing all the things, you should learn about yourself first before somebody else starts telling you how to play.'

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

What you are will make you what you will become.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.