Isaac Asimov Quotes

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

You always knows what's best for you.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, 'What a waste of energy.' If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

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

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.