On My Own Quotes

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

Coaching my own kid is driving both him and me crazy

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

I like to throw my own punches when I can, as would any guy. You can always tell when it's somebody in a wig. It's cool when it comes up to your face and it's still you in the fight.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'

I'm going to eventually shoot my own special, because you have to own your own content. My Turn (2003), that's never been released on DVD.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

I can't defend someone else's jokes. I can only defend my jokes, and I have to live with my own jokes.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

As much as theyll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.