Quotes About Individuality

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

What people think of you is none of your business.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.