John Prine Quotes

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

I don't let people affect me.

That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what other people think. You're out there running your own race and you want to run everybody as clean as possible.

All I'm focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.

I will always make my own path.

I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

I don't care what people think of me. I don't even care what happens to me.

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

I am a strong believer to follow your own path, no matter what people think.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.