The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
I will respect anyone who thinks differently, but I know what I have in my heart and only God can judge me. If everybody took care of their own lives only we would have less prejudice in this world.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
I don’t need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.
When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.
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.
There’s no need to dress like everyone else. It’s much more fun to create your own look.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
I don’t like following in people’s footsteps; I like making my own trail.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.
Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can’t force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
