Quotes About Self-reliance

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.

Someone tried to introduce me to Michael Bloomberg, but I declined.

I keep things mostly to myself. I'm more of an introvert.

I mind my own business. Too much of attention becomes intrusive at times.

We all have the power, intuition, and ability to think and act for ourselves until we give that power away. We give our power away because we're bullied into thinking we aren't good enough and someone else must know better than us; therefore, we should give over our instincts and act according to instruction.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

As a small brand, we do it all. We don't need an investor. We would never go anywhere or do anything where we feel it would compromise what we do.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

I learned how to cook, how to iron clothes. That really helped me be more mature than guys who are my age.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

We lived off the land in Italy.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.