Aaron Johnson Quotes

Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

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?

I think I'm a bit of a loner, and actually quite enjoy alone time; friends become people you want to actually spend time with rather than people who are just in your life. I think it's a nice place to be.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It's a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.

I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.