Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

Do what you're happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you 'acting a color.' You don't act at all. You just do what you think is best.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

I'm talented and I don't listen to people. I have a mind of my own.

You've got to listen to yourself, do what you think is best. Because if you listen to the critics, you might be going in all different directions.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Don't imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don't bother about what others say. It is nobody else's business. Don't bother about what churches say, organizations say - listen to your own heart.

I don't believe that everyone else really cares what I do all the time. I think in general you have to follow your own path and your own heart and not worry about what everybody else wants you to do. They should be worried about what they're going to do.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Life choices and projects and photo shoots, I can't base them on anybody else but myself. I've done things where I'm like, "Do I want my dad to see this? I don't know!" But the best lesson I can teach my sisters, or any younger women, is "Do what YOU do. Don't follow me, follow you."

I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.

Don't change for nobody.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

Follow your own star!

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.