Own Terms Quotes

#1. In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

Karina Longworth

#2. I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Nelson Mandela

#3. I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Winona Ryder

#4. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

#5. I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

Yvon Chouinard

#6. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

Francisco Leon

#7. I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

Ayn Rand

#8. I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Ayn Rand

#9. He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#10. Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

Joan Didion

#11. My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge

#12. Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

Antonio Damasio

#13. In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases.

Asma Barlas

#14. Progressives need a collection of proactive policies and communication techniques to get our own values out on our own terms. "War rooms" and "truth squads" must change frames, not reinforce conservative frames.

George Lakoff

#15. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Seanan McGuire

#16. 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.

Ted Alexandro

#17. I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Kevin Bacon

#18. We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

#19. I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Joe R. Lansdale

#20. When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Nina Jacobson

#21. The secret, so Shimrod knew, was never to accept the fairies' terms, but always to close the deal on one's own stipulations, otherwise the bargain was sure to turn sour.

Jack Vance

#22. I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

John Lloyd

#23. The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

John Assaraf

#24. I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

Gabriel Byrne

#26. In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

Dan Ariely

#27. Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Damien Hirst

#28. They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

Paula McLain

#29. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#30. The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.

Mark Canton

#31. Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Peter Forsberg

#32. Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs of a new country into terms of his own, before he can fully comprehend them.

Willa Cather

#33. I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

J. August Richards

#34. Oh, yes, that's right--my terms. I'm sorry, but you'll have to state clearly, for the record, in your own words, your clear-minded and sober intention to ride my dick. Actually, let me go get a witness, just to be on the safe side ...

Mercy Brown

#35. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Oliver James

#36. As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Andrew Greeley

#37. We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Mignon McLaughlin

#38. I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

Christina Aguilera

#39. Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.

Billy Graham

#40. One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

Henry Grunwald

#41. No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Tom Peters

#43. Drake is my own personal suicide, and the sooner I except that, the sooner I can come to terms with my loner status at the school library

Addison Moore

#44. I would say that I'm a really eclectic music lover, so I love the fact that one month I will be doing one kind of music and the next month I will be doing something very different and I think that really works for me in terms of my own personal tastes and styles.

Christopher Lennertz

#45. Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.

Tamas Vasary

#46. In terms of conditioning and lifting weights, if you can't do that on your own, you're in trouble anyways. You're a professional, you have to get that done yourself.

Kerry Rhodes

#47. Late-blooming success can be complicated. As people age, they are more likely to judge their accomplishments on their own terms; however, late bloomers often use the benefits of broader acknowledgment and publicity to help them meet their personal and professional goals.

J.M. Orend

#48. An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

J.D. Salinger

#49. The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

Bobby Seale

#50. Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Nan Fairbrother

#51. Success is fucking up on your own terms.

Guillermo Del Toro

#52. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.

Francis Chan

#53. 'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Paul Schrader

#54. I would rather live a life with a hundred failed dreams created on my own terms, than one successful reality, created on the terms of another.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#55. Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

Terry Tempest Williams

#56. Hardy would never be the easiest man to have a relationship with. He was complex and strong-willed and rough-edged. But I loved those qualities about him. I was more than willing to take him exactly as he was. And it didn't hurt that he seemed equally game to take me on my own terms.

Lisa Kleypas

#57. Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Muriel Rukeyser

#58. It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

Christopher Buckley

#59. The two Hindi movies that I did were not marketed well, and so not many people came to watch the film, hence the audience doesn't know much about me. I am a newcomer, and I cannot sell a film on my own. There has to be a backing in terms of producers.

Tena Desae

#60. Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.

Sara Zarr

#61. Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

Bill Jensen

#62. I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

Simone Elkeles

#63. It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

Jessica Alba

#64. I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Billie Jean King

#65. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

Epictetus

#66. I pulled myself together. I could do this. Until then, Hugh was the most famous person I'd ever met. Well, Hugh had just been star-slapped!
Harriet Jones, On Our Own Terms

Adelaide Hipwell

#67. The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

Jean Hegland

#68. We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Michael Chertoff

#69. Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

T. Harv Eker

#70. An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

C.S. Lewis

#71. Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Sam Harris

#72. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Jeanette Winterson

#73. The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Billy Bob Thornton

#74. I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Hillary Clinton

#75. That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

Barack Obama

#76. Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

Robin S. Sharma

#77. Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

Elizabeth Rudnick

#78. Those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre.

Napoleon Hill

#79. The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

C.S. Lewis

#80. In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

Daniel H. Pink

#81. One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Sun Tzu

#82. I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

Charles Bukowski

#83. The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Clement Greenberg

#84. People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage.
Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms.

Saru Singhal

#85. If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

Alex Lifeson

#86. As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Paul Auster

#87. I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

Tyler Florence

#88. I want to live life on my own terms.

Simone Elkeles

#89. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Clara Mamet

#90. But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

James Merrill

#91. I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.

Laverne Cox

#92. Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Harold E. Varmus

#93. Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

Andrew Simms

#94. If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

Bo Burnham

#96. I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.

Anne Bishop

#97. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

Chris Rose

#98. All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

Kenneth Tynan

#99. For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Gerry Adams

#100. Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Joyce Carol Oates