Kirby Smart Quotes

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

I have my way of doing things.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - that's important. Don't follow what other people are doing.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.