Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Know yourself to improve yourself.