On My Own Quotes

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

My own growth is a part of a group evolution, definitely. It does feel as if the changes in the group are meant to be, and that I am not as much a catalyst, so to say, but rather a result of this.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.