Michael Socha Quotes

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.