John A. Powell Quotes

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Everybody grows in their own way.

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 mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

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

Don't go through life, grow through life.