Grace Zabriskie Quotes

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Instead of waiting around for someone to give you a job, you have to go and create work for yourself. It took me a while to figure that out for myself.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

I only can talk about myself and my experience. Honestly, working on your own terms is difficult for a newcomer but not impossible. I am an example of that.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.