Top 100 Quotes About My Own Way
#1. I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.
Signe Baumane
#2. I want to change the world in my own way. So I do stuff that's artificial. I don't really like being the guest at someone else's party, because then I have to be entertaining. But I'll host parties because it puts you at the center of things without actually being a social person.
Susan Cain
#3. It's not that I haven't given it (turning pro) careful thought, it's just that I am torn as to which course I should take. There is no need to rush. I won't be consulting anybody about this and I will do things my own way.
Shizuka Arakawa
#4. In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.
Matthew Perry
#5. People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
Elia Kazan
#6. As a child with Autism, I experienced life my own way. I could sense colours/sounds/objects as beams of intense sensations.
Tina J. Richardson
#7. I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux
#8. When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.
Rolonda Watts
#9. I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.
Josh McDermitt
#10. My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
Douglas Coupland
#11. I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
David Lynch
#12. By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel
#13. The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.
Alexis Wright
#14. Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
Debby Ryan
#16. Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached his hand out to my heart. "What I should have said back on the plane is I know you're real." His eyes narrowed, "I'll always fight for you, Lexi, in my own way.
S.G. Holster
#17. I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."
Columbus Short
#18. There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
Lauren Oliver
#19. Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.
Tina J. Richardson
#20. 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.
Markus Zusak
#21. 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.
Margaret Oliphant
#22. Leave me with my life of the imagination. Your petty pestering, your details of real life, which all upset me to some degree, would drag me down from heaven. Each person dies as best he may; my wish is not to think of death except in my own way.
Stendhal
#23. Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
Les Baxter
#24. I had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult
#25. Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
John Mayer
#26. I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
Sigourney Weaver
#27. I worked with the same producer from The Freebie, my cinematographer was one of my shooters from The Freebie. I was really aiming to tackle a genre, but sorta tackle it in my own way, and put my stamp on it, and the way that I like to see movies made.
Katie Aselton
#28. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
#29. My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.
Lee Damsky
#30. I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.
Kim Young-ha
#31. We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.
Vic Fuentes
#32. It's funny because I never studied, I never took a class. So everything I do is very innate and organic; I don't really have words for it. It is a communion with spirit. I don't get in my own way and allow the character to do what it's going to do.
Kimberly Elise
#33. I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
Jenny Downham
#34. Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Are you the Lily of the Shores of the Mohawk River? Can I love you in my own way?
Leonard Cohen
#35. I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet
#36. Maybe I'm not so good as I seem to you. I've a bad heart; I will have my own way.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
Famke Janssen
#38. I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
#39. No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.
S.J. Parris
#40. I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.
Buddy Wakefield
#41. There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
Anne Wilson Schaef
#42. Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.
Julie Anne Peters
#43. Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the radio, I guarantee you that unless the song is real, there is nothing wrong with having success and I want to be successful. That is why I am, but I do it my own way.
Shane Bunting
#44. the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell
Terry Francona
#45. This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Josiah Royce
#46. Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. ( ... )
Theodore Sturgeon
#47. I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Pamela Stephenson
#48. I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
Rachel Sklar
#50. I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.
Jonathan Keltz
#51. I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
Omar Sy
#52. My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
#53. was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere; sightseeing
Paul Theroux
#54. All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.
Tommy Bolin
#55. I can't wait to see what I can do, now that I'm no longer standing in my own way.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#56. I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.
John Boyega
#58. I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
Lydia M. Child
#59. If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody ... That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.
K-Maro
#60. Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.
Jonathan Ames
#61. I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.
Howard Dean
#62. I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
Ben Mendelsohn
#63. The only thing a girl in high school - who's never dated anyone before - wants is to find someone to love her. I was breaking out and going my own way, and while I was reinventing myself to become the me I would always be, I was dying to throw my epic love story in the mix. I
Shelly Crane
#64. Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
Pete Hamill
#65. Here Mrs. Wiggins, who had been slowing down gradually, came to a full stop. "Good land, Charles," she said, looking down at the rooster, "I can't remember all those big words. That was a real nice speech you wrote out for me, but I guess you'll just have to let me tell it in my own way." Charles
Walter R. Brooks
#66. Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.
Geoff Tate
#67. There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.
Mario Balotelli
#68. If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
Soren Kierkegaard
#69. Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle
#70. I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#71. Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.
Danny Masterson
#72. Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.
Jack Foster
#73. I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
Taylor Dayne
#74. I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.
Brad Grey
#75. I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
Florence Welch
#76. One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way
in a big way.
Devon Sawa
#77. I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.
Maya Banks
#78. Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.
Nikki Sixx
#79. Are you happy?
When I can get out of my own way.
And the rest of the time?
The rest of the time I'm in a state of silent panic. I'm afraid it will end. I'll lose him. Lose everything.
I've done that. Lost everything. It's a bitch.
Ilona Andrews
#80. In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
Mika.
#81. I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.
Kelly Brook
#82. Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I
was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.
Lynda Carter
#85. I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory ... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him!
Charles R. Swindoll
#87. I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mean, I am stern in my own way - I am not one to let children run over me - but I am very, very good with children, and I can usually get what I want out of them.
Betty Wright
#88. I found my own way of doing things.
Lee Clow
#89. I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.
Emraan Hashmi
#90. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.
It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.
Cheryl Strayed
#91. By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
John Le Carre
#92. I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.
Leon Bridges
#94. It doesn't pay the bills. And if I'm not going to do what my mother and Millicent want, I better be able to pay my own way. Because it's just a matter of time before they cut me off financially.
April White
#95. Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#96. My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.
Christopher Walken
#97. I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.
Bai Ling
#98. I've come so far, but in some ways, I haven't gone any distance. I'm still hiding from bad men. I'm still trying to figure how to make my own way, my own fortune.
Rae Carson
#99. I mean to say, Krestyan Ivanovich, that I go my own way, a particular way. I'm my own particular man and, as it seems to me, I don't depend on anybody. I also go for walks, Krestyan Ivanovich.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#100. That's just it, don't you see? I don't want to be taken care of! I don't want be hidden away, a burden! I want to make my own way! To have a greater purpose!'
Melanie Benjamin
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