Own Quotes

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

I like to control my own personal life.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Islam is about finding your own space.