On My Own Quotes

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.