Quotes About Self-sufficiency

African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

I'm a private person and hate making friends.

If I produce myself, I'm gonna exploit no one - just myself.

If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl.

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.

I learned a lot from more experienced mountaineers, such as Peter Habeler, but by the time I was about 21 I reckoned I had learned all that I needed to make me technically self-sufficient anywhere.

This quarantine life is not new to me. I've been like this from my teens.

When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.

Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.