Aziz Ansari Quotes

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

I'm doing what I want to do.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.