We Are Not Nouns, We Are Verbs

You can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

“If you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it… That is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing… an actor, a writer… I am a person who does things…I write, I act…and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.” — Oscar Wilde