Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

You came out of your mother’s belly without government. You have lived so far without the help of government …. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well looked upon?

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

Working solo means you don't have to account for anybody else. You do it yourself, so you're not trying to please others as well as yourself; you're just trying to do the best you can.

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.