Chuck D Quotes

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.