On My Own Quotes

I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.

I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I look into my own black heart.