Quotes About Self-reliance

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

I've never bothered about what people say about me.

I can't focus on what other people say about me.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

I don't care what people say about me.

I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

I am not dependent on Pep. He is a great coach, but I do not need to take the same path as him.

Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren't able to move as fast as you want.

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

'Bloodlight and Bami' delivers. Ms. Jones shucks her own oysters - stressfully. She does her own make up and performs her own vexed yet amusing contract negotiations.

By nature, a woman is independent though she can have bindings. But, she is a lone performer.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

Have you watched Animal Planet? The lioness is out there hunting the zebras, the gazelles, all sorts of things, so you need to be the fierce lioness or dragon that you are. Have that inner fire. See what you want, get it, and ask nobody for permission.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.