Top 1200 Doing Your Own Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.

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

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing.

Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?

There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

You make your own choices. Even extramarital affair, it's your own decision. And you suffer for it and pay for it. That's what 'Ankahee' is all about.

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

Lord knows one can use a distraction during divorce, and it's great to feel you are again successful on your own, with your own identity.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

Sometimes it's nice to think, "Oh, I can only do this one thing." Instead of feeling like, "I could theoretically, maybe, if I applied myself, could be successful in a number of different fields." That can be overwhelming. Sometimes it's nice to have this myopic vision for your life and that's the only thing you can imagine yourself doing.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.