Own Quotes

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Art lies by its own artifice.