Own Quotes
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We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
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Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.
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At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.
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As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.
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Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.
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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
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I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.
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It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.
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In my personal opinion, I think both Block B and soloist Park Kyung release great music. If I had to pick a difference, the music of Block B is comparably strong and for me, as a solo artist, I focus more on my own music style.
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You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
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I only want to play my own good sets, that's the only way to make that happen.
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Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.
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A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?
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We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.
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We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.
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You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. I just want to do my own thing. If people like my work, all the better. If they don't, too bad.
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Certain categories of us are more crucial to our identities than the kind of car we drive or the number of dots we can guess on a slide—gender, sexuality, religion, politics, ethnicity, and nationality, for starters. Without feeling attached to groups that give our lives meaning, identity, and purpose, we would suffer the intolerable sensation that we were loose marbles floating in a random universe. Therefore, we will do what it takes to preserve these attachments. Evolutionary psychologists argue that ethnocentrism—the belief that our own culture, nation, or religion is superior to all others—aids survival by strengthening our bonds to our primary social groups and thus increasing our willingness to work, fight, and occasionally die for them. When things are going well, people feel pretty tolerant of other cultures and religions—they even feel pretty tolerant of the other sex!—but when they are angry, anxious, or threatened, the default position is to activate their blind spots.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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We've got to take care of our own business. If we don't do that, we could be sitting at home in a few weeks.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
