Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.
Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.
I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.
Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all.
You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.
If everyone sweeps their own doorstep, their own neighbourhoods, the world will be a clean, pure and healthy place for life to prosper.
(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
