. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.

Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.

We can't be anything we want to be.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.


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STEVEN WRIGHT
What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,...
STEVEN LEVITAN
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe...
STEVEN PRICE
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate...
STEVEN SINOFSKY
Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
STEVEN TYLER
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All...
STEVEN PINKER
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor...
STEVEN STUCKY
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev...
STEVEN BLUM
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescrib...
STEVEN BLUM
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The ...
STEVEN PINKER
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ...
STEVEN CHU
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chai...
STEVEN JOHNSON
One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ...
STEVEN SEAGAL
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that ...
STEVEN SEAGAL
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT
If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News...
STEVEN WEBER
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a res...
STEVEN LEVITAN
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ...
STEVEN CHU
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,...
STEVEN PINKER
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oa...
STEVEN PINKER
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less i...
STEVEN WEBER
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of ...
STEVEN JOHNSON
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this...
STEVEN ADLER
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's...
STEVEN WEBER
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want ...
STEVEN WEINBERG
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination t...
STEVEN PINKER
The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
STEVEN GERRARD
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe...
STEVEN SODERBERGH
I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second li...
STEVEN TYLER
When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ...
STEVEN ADLER
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ...
STEVEN TYLER
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning a...
STEVEN PINKER
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes fro...
STEVEN JOHNSON
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
STEVEN WRIGHT
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
STEVEN ADLER
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t...
STEVEN ADLER
I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
STEVEN ADLER
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav...
STEVEN ADLER
I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year...
STEVEN ADLER
The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo...
STEVEN ADLER