Top 1200 My Own Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

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

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

My wife and I like to cook, so we actually prepare our own meals often and can hold our own in the kitchen.

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

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

With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

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

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

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

I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.

People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door.

Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.

The world measures the government of a nation on the basis of its condition in its own country, on how strong their word is in their own country.

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.

I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.

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.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

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.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.

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

Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.

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

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

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

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.