On My Own Quotes

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.

I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.

I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)... Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I like to follow my own muse.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

I know all that better than my own name.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Your views are now my own.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.