Quotes About Individuality

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

I work differently than most people.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.