On My Own Quotes

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

You can't take life for granted. I am lucky to have everything I've ever wanted. I've got a beautiful wife, a job I've always dreamed of...and my face on my own t-shirts.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

I never liked my own species.

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

I tend to stay healthy because Ive been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when youre healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.