Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I was always taught to do something to have an identity of your own. Forget your mom, dad, brother, sister, regardless of how big they are, you should do things by yourself, even if it means selling clothes or pens on the road.

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.

I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that's what granola bars are for.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

I never had to run home and help anybody with their homework.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

I'm not a housewife in any way.

I do all my own shopping and housework.

Julian is a very humble guy, so he might not say this, but he never lived with John Casablancas. John Casablancas is a very cool guy. But Julian is a very self-sufficient person. He worked as a bartender, just like everyone else worked.

So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.

The feeling I got was when you're so self-sufficient and self-important and you're walking down the street... be careful that your imaginary wings don't jostle the real angels that are the common people.

It stopped me. I felt, as I too often did, that I was abandoning him. It was foolish, I knew: Didier was arguably the most self-sufficient contrabandist in the city. He was one of the last independent gangsters, owing nothing, not even fear, to the mafia Companies, cops and street gangs that controlled his illegal world. But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.