Kingsley Amis Quotes

I only do what I like to do.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

When you are training, you are doing what you want to do.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

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

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.