On My Own Quotes

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.

On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three head of big game. I'm surprised I even came home. I was in heaven.

I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.