Aya Cash Quotes

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

You have to take control of your own career.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

It's important to drive your own ship, and it's your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.

It's my life, my career. I'm making all the decisions now.

Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

I've created the life I wanted.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.