Quotes About Self-sufficiency

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

I can't spend my life worrying about others.

I stopped worrying about people; I started thinking that I would be answerable only to myself.

You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.

I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social. Otherwise you'll end up being devoured.

I am clearly content to be beyond help.

If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.